Does heterozygous β-thalassemia confer a protection against coronary artery disease?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1054, Issue , 2005, Pages 467-470

  Tassiopoulos, Stergios ^a   Deftereos, Spyros ^a,c   Konstantopoulos, Kostas ^a   Farmakis, Dmitris ^a   Tsironi, Maria ^a   Kyriakidis, Michalis ^b   Aessopos, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cardioprotection; Coronary artery disease; thalassemia

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROMA; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HEART PROTECTION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 29744463489     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1345.068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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