An index predicting coronary heart disease: LDL/HDL x 5

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-9

  Kimata, Shin Ichi ^a   Hosoda, Saichi ^a   Yokoyama, Izumi ^b   Yamada, Nobuhiro ^c  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Women s Medical University   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Effort angina; HDL; LDL; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

EID: 0030957542     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.38.1     Document Type: Article

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