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Coronary Heart Disease
HDL Cholesterol Predicts Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Older Persons
September 11th, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, "Objectives: To examine the relationship of total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) with coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality and with occurrence of new CHD events in persons aged 71 years and older. Setting: Prospective cohort study with a median of 4.4 years of follow-up. Setting: East Boston, Mass; New Haven, Conn; and Iowa and Washington counties, Iowa. Participants: A total of 2527 women and 1377 men who completed an interview, had serum lipid determinations, and survived at least 1 year. New CHD events...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-09-11)
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