Low carbohydrate-high protein diet and incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Swedish women: Prospective cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7864, 2012, Pages

  Lagiou, Pagona ^a,b   Sandin, Sven ^c   Lof, Marie ^c,d   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b,e   Adami, Hans Olov ^b,c   Weiderpass, Elisabete ^c,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^f CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^h FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATURATED FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN DIET; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84863595494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4026     Document Type: Article

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