Dietary antioxidant vitamins and death from coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 1156-1162

  Kushi, Lawrence H ^a   Folsom, Aaron R ^a   Prineas, Ronald J ^b   Mink, Pamela J ^a   Wu, Ying ^c   Bostick, Roberd M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; RETINOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CORONARY DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0029918290     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199605023341803     Document Type: Article

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