Cholesterol was healthy in the end

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2009, Pages 90-109

  Ravnskov, Uffe ^a  

^a NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 2; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACIDS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIPOPROTEINS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77956035792     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000235715     Document Type: Article

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