Association of serum total cholesterol with coronary disease and all-cause mortality: Multivariate correction for bias due to measurement error

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 463-471

  Iribarren, Carlos ^a,b   Sharp, Dan ^c   Burchfiel, Cecil M ^c   Sun, Ping ^a   Dwyer, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias (epidemiology); Cohort studies; Coronary disease; Mortality; Regression analysis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; ERROR SOURCES; HAWAII; HEART DISEASES; LIPIDS; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HAWAII; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029866637     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008766     Document Type: Article

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