Dietary pattern and 20 year mortality in elderly men in Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands: Longitudinal cohort study

British Medical Journal

Volumn 315, Issue 7099, 1997, Pages 13-17

  Huijbregts, Patricia ^a   Feskens, Edith ^a   Räsänen, Leena ^b   Fidanza, Flaminio ^c   Nissinen, Aulikki ^d   Menotti, Alessandro ^e   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLESTEROL; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; FAT INTAKE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030996521     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7099.13     Document Type: Article

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