Elevated total cholesterol: Its prevalence and population attributable fraction for mortality from coronary heart disease and ischaemic stroke in the Asia-Pacific region

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 397-401

  Woodward, Mark ^a,c   Martiniuk, Alexandra ^a   Lee, Crystal Man Ying ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^d   Vanderhoorn, Stephen ^e   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^f   Fang, Xianghua ^g   Kim, Hyeon Chang ^h   Rodgers, Anthony ^e   Patel, Anushka ^a   Jamrozik, Konrad ^b   Huxley, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^g CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; attributable fraction; cholesterol; heart disease; stroke

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRALIA; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 55249110237     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJR.0b013e3282fdc967     Document Type: Article

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