The tenacity of the coronary candidate: How people with familial hypercholesterolaemia construct raised cholesterol and coronary heart disease

Health

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 407-427

  Weiner, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Geneticization; Heart disease; Lay constructions; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650187753     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459309103915     Document Type: Article

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