Fasting blood glucose: An underestimated risk factor for cardiovascular death: Results from a 22-year follow-up of healthy nondiabetic men

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-49

  Bjørnholt, Jørgen V ^a   Nitter Hauge, Sigurd ^a   Erikssen, Gunnar ^b   Jervell, Jak ^a   Aaser, Ellinor ^a   Erikssen, Jan ^b   Sandvik, Leiv ^b   Thaulow, Erik ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LIPID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FASTING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0345251958     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.1.45     Document Type: Article

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