Recent AHA/ACC cholesterol guidelines: Vice or virtue?

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 605-606

  Seth, Bhavna ^a   Williams, Jonathan S ^b  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RISK; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899424257     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: 15328600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2013.12.013     Document Type: Editorial

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