Coffee and tea consumption in the Scottish Heart Health Study follow up: Conflicting relations with coronary risk factors, coronary disease, and all cause mortality

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 481-487

  Woodward, Mark ^a   Tunstall Pedoe, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COFFEE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; CORONARY RISK; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEA;

EID: 0032784487     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.8.481     Document Type: Article

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