Obesity, mortality and cardiovascular disease in the Munster Heart Study (PROCAM)

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 199-209

  Schulte, Helmut ^a   Cullen, Paul ^a,b   Assmann, Gerd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Mortality; Obesity

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033013368     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(99)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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