Hypercholesterolemia and smoking habits of Lithuanian military personnel

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 512-515

  Vaicaitiene, Ramute ^a   Cerniauskiene, Liucija Rita ^b   Luksiene, Dalia Ieva ^b   Margeviciene, Lilija ^b  

^a Department of Preventive Health Care Programs   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LIFESTYLE; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; SOLDIER;

EID: 33745029116     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.6.512     Document Type: Article

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