Association of apolipoprotein E genotype with early onset of coronary heart disease in Greek men

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 663-670

  Kolovou, Genovefa D ^a   Anagnostopoulou, Katherine K ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a,c   Pilatis, Nektarios D ^a   Cariolou, Marios A ^d   Yiannakouris, Nikos ^c   Degiannis, Dimitris ^a   Stavridis, Georgios ^a   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 29044450385     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600603     Document Type: Article

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