Are there sex differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease? Maternal versus paternal transmission

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 817-818

  Redberg, Rita F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ESTROGEN; VITAMIN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PATERNAL INHERITANCE; PATERNAL TRANSMISSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0042668579     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.8.817     Document Type: Editorial

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