A historical cohort study of the effect of lowering body iron through blood donation on incident cardiac events

Transfusion

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1135-1139

  Meyers, David G ^a,b   Jensen, Kelly C ^a,b   Menitove, Jay E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of New York Blood Center Enterprises   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; IRON; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HABIT; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD DONORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HABITS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRON; KANSAS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036727362     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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