Baseline serum total cholesterol and coronary heart disease incidence in African-American women (The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study)

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1246-1249

  Gillum, Richard F ^a   Mussolino, Michael E ^b   Sempos, Christopher T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0032525080     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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