Homogeneity in the relationship of serum cholesterol to coronary deaths across different cultures: 40-year follow-up of the Seven Countries Study

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 719-725

  Menotti, Alessandro ^a   Lanti, Mariapaola ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^b   Blackburn, Henry ^c   Jacobs, David ^c   Nissinen, Aulikki ^d   Dontas, Anastasios ^e   Kafatos, Antony ^f   Nedeljkovic, Srecko ^g   Adachi, Hisashi ^h  

^a Association for Cardiac Research   (Italy)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Athens Regional Home Health   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^h KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

coronary heart disease; population studies; prediction; serum cholesterol

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERBIA; UNITED STATES; ASIAN; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64749091722     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJR.0b013e328315789c     Document Type: Article

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