Serum total cholesterol concentration and 10-year mortality in an 85-year-old population

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 293-300

  Takata, Yutaka ^a   Ansai, Toshihiro ^a   Soh, Inho ^a   Awano, Shuji ^a   Nakamichi, Ikuo ^a   Akifusa, Sumio ^a   Goto, Kenichi ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Fujii, Hiroki ^a   Fujisawa, Ritsuko ^a   Sonoki, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community dwelling; Gender difference; LDL cholesterol; Prospective cohort; Very elderly

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VERY ELDERLY;

COMMUNITY-DWELLING; GENDER DIFFERENCE; LDL-CHOLESTEROL; PROSPECTIVE COHORT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84896879342     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S53754     Document Type: Article

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