Flavonoids and heart disease

BMJ

Volumn 312, Issue 7029, 1996, Pages 458-459

  Muldoon, Matthew F ^a   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FLAVONOID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; QUERCETIN;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALORIC INTAKE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; EDITORIAL; FRUIT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIPID OXIDATION; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETABLE;

DIET; FLAVONOIDS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 0030057753     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7029.458     Document Type: Editorial

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