Total but not high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is consistently associated coronary heart disease mortality in elderly men in Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands

Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 327-332

  Houterman, Saskia ^a   Verschuren, W M Monique ^a   Giampaoli, Simona ^b   Nissinen, Aulikki ^c   Feskens, Edith J M ^a   Menotti, Alessandro ^a,d   Kromhout, Daan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Body mass index; Cholesterol; Cohort study; Coronary heart disease; Elderly; International comparisons

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY DISEASE; FINLAND; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034007761     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200005000-00017     Document Type: Article

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