Cardiovascular risk factor profile in subjects with familial predisposition to myocardial infarction in Denmark

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 266-271

  Hippe, Merete ^a   Vestbo, Jørgen ^a   Bjerg, Anders Munch ^a   Borch Johnsen, Knut ^b   Appleyard, Merete ^c   Hein, Hans Ole ^c   Andersen, Per Kragh ^d   Jensen, Gorm ^c   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030861372     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.3.266     Document Type: Article

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