Alcohol consumption, coronary calcium, and coronary heart disease events

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 802-806

  Yang, Ted ^a   Doherty, Terence M ^a   Wong, Nathan D ^b   Detrano, Robert C ^a,b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PROTECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032886877     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00440-3     Document Type: Article

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