Obesity as a risk factor in coronary artery disease

American Heart Journal

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1102-1107

  Rao, Sunil V ^a   Donahue, Mark ^a   Pi Sunyer, F Xavier ^b   Fuster, Valentin ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN A;

ADULT; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME X; ANIMAL; COMORBIDITY; FOLLOW UP; METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEIN(A); MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035650504     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhj.2001.119419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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