Metabolic mediators of body-mass index and cardiovascular risk

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9934, 2014, Pages 2042-2043

  Wormser, David ^a   Wood, Angela M ^a   Di Angelantonio, Emanuele ^a   Thompson, Simon G ^a   Danesh, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DILUTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; NOTE; OBESITY; FAMILY HISTORY; HYPERTENSION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS;

BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; OVERWEIGHT; STROKE;

EID: 84902244873     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60991-0     Document Type: Letter

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