Cardiovascular disease mortality and serum carotenoid levels: A Japanese population-based follow-up study

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 154-160

  Ito, Yoshinori ^a,b   Kurata, Mio ^a   Suzuki, Koji ^b   Hamajima, Nobuyuki ^a   Hishida, Hitoshi ^c   Aoki, Kunio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Carotenoids; Follow up studies; Japan; Lycopene

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; ALPHA-CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; LYCOPENE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BETA CAROTENE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTENOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 33746354354     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.16.154     Document Type: Article

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