Smoking, lipids, glucose intolerance, and blood pressure as risk factors for peripheral atherosclerosis compared with ischemic heart disease in the Edinburgh artery study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 331-340

  Gerald R Fowkes, F ^a   Housley, Edward ^a   Riemersma, Rudolph A ^a   Macintyre, Celia C A ^a   Cawood, Elizabeth H H ^a   Prescott, Robin J ^a   Ruckley, C Vaughan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial occlusive diseases; Blood pressure; Coronary disease; Diabetes mellitus; Intermittent claudication; Lipids; Risk factors; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL CHOLESTEROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0026607108     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116294     Document Type: Article

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