Diabetes, mortality and coronary heart disease in the prospective Dubbo study of Australian elderly

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 66-74

  Simons, L A ^a,d   McCallum, J ^b   Friedlander, Y ^c   Simons, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Elderly; Gender; Mortality; Risk factor; Stroke

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STROKE;

EID: 0029868821     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1996.tb02909.x     Document Type: Article

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