Dietary cardiovascular risk factors and serum cholesterol in an old order Mennonite community

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1202-1205

  Glick, Myron ^c   Michel, Andrew C ^a   Dorn, Joan ^c   Horwitz, Mary ^c   Rosenthal, Thomas ^c   Trevisan, Maurizio ^b  

^a Schuyler Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY RISK; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031876303     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.8.1202     Document Type: Article

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