HDL Cholesterol Predicts Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Older Persons

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 274, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 539-544

  Corti, Maria Chiara ^a   Guralnik, Jack M ^a   Salive, Marcel E ^a   Harris, Tamara ^a   Havlik, Richard J ^a   Field, Terry S ^b   Glynn, Robert J ^b   Seeman, Teresa E ^b   Hennekens, Charles H ^b   Berkman, Lisa F ^c   Wallace, Robert B ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029161830     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1995.03530070037026     Document Type: Article

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