Intima-media thickness of the carotid artery and the distribution of lipoprotein subclasses in men aged 40 to 49 years between whites in the United States and the Japanese in Japan for the ERA JUMP study

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-182

  Sekikawa, Akira ^a   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^b   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a   Kadowaki, Takashi ^b   El Saed, Aiman ^a   Okamura, Tomonori ^b   Takamiya, Tomoko ^a   Ueno, Yoshiki ^b   Evans, Rhobert W ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^b   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^c   Kashiwagi, Atsunori ^b   Maegawa, Hiroshi ^b   Kuller, Lewis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; LIPOPROTEINS, VLDL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENNSYLVANIA; TRIGLYCERIDES; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 38049024760     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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