Relationship of hair calcium concentration to incidence of coronary heart disease

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 255, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 11-19

  MacPherson, Allan ^a   Bacsó, Jozsef ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Hair calcium; Hard water; Sunshine hours

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER HARDNESS;

ADULT; AGED; CALCIUM; CORONARY DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0034622102     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00433-2     Document Type: Article

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