Coronary Heart Disease
"Baseline Serum Total Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in African-American Women (The NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study)."
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 13th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in American Journal of Cardiology, "Proportional-hazards analyses for African-American women aged 25 to 74 revealed a variable association of coronary heart disease risk with baseline serum total cholesterol (after adjusting for age fifth vs. first quintile: RR = 1.62, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.89 to 2.98, p=0.12; after adjusting for age, systolic blood pressure, body mass index, smoking, history of diabetes, low education, and low family income: RR = 1.88, 95% CI 1.02 to 3.45, p=0.04). Perhaps due to the relatively small number of events, the association of serum total cholesterol with coronary heart disease...
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