Twenty-one year tracking of serum non-cholesterol sterols. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 525-531

  Miettinen, T A ^a   Hallikainen, M ^b   Raitakari, O T ^c   Viikari, J ^c   Gylling, H ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Cholesterol absorption; Cholesterol synthesis; Lathosterol; Sitosterol; Tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAMPESTEROL; CHOLESTANOL; CHOLESTEROL; DESMOSTEROL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LATHOSTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTANOL; CHOLESTEROL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DESMOSTEROL; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; PHYTOSTEROLS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SITOSTEROLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69349097757     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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