The relationship between serum total cholesterol and all-cause or cause-specific mortality in a 17.3-year study of a Japanese cohort

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 216-223

  Okamura, Tomonori ^a   Tanaka, Hideo ^b   Miyamatsu, Naomi ^a   Hayakawa, Takehito ^c   Kadowaki, Takashi ^a   Kita, Yoshikuni ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^d   Okayama, Akira ^e   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

All cause mortality; Cholesterol; Cohort studies; Liver disease; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; JAPAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; JAPAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33845416396     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.01.024     Document Type: Article

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