Plasma plant sterol levels: Another coronary heart disease risk factor?

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-6

  Sehayek, Ephraim ^a   Breslow, Jan L ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICASTEROL; CAMPESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; STIGMASTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGED; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SITOSTEROLEMIA; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; XANTHOMA;

ANIMALS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; PHYTOSTEROLS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 11144245289     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000151984.34920.aa     Document Type: Editorial

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