Plasma lipids and apolipoproteins in a population of Orang Asli ('aborigines') from West Malaysia

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-51

  Candlish, J K ^a   Saha, N ^b   Mak, J W ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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

^c INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

apolipoprotein A1; apolipoprotein B; Orang Asli; plasma lipids

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALAYSIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; APOLIPOPROTEINS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALAYSIA; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031055680     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(96)06013-3     Document Type: Article

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