Blood and urine levels of heavy metal pollutants in female and male patients with coronary artery disease

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 311-317

  Sponder, Michael ^a   Fritzer Szekeres, Monika ^a   Marculescu, Rodrig ^a   Mittlböck, Martina ^a   Uhl, Maria ^b   Köhler Vallant, Birgit ^b   Strametz Juranek, Jeanette ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Medical chemical laboratory analysis Medical University of Vienna ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Coronary artery disease; Mercury; Plumbum; Pollutants

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CREATININE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LEAD; MERCURY; NITROGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FISH MEAT; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLLUTANT; RISK FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS; WINE;

CADMIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MERCURY; PLUMBUM; POLLUTANTS;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; LEAD; MALE; MERCURY; METALS, HEAVY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEAFOOD; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; WINE;

EID: 84901203830     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/vhrm.s61510     Document Type: Article

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