TOTAL AND HDL CHOLESTEROL AND THEIR CORRELATES IN ELDERLY MEN IN FINLAND, ITALY, AND THE NETHERLANDS
In 1984 and 1985, 25-year follow-up studies were carried out in the Italian, Finnish, and Dutch cohorts of men originally examined around 1960 in the Seven Countries Study. Risk factors for coronary heart disease were determined in 2,255 men aged 65–84 years. The average serum total cholesterol levels of the elderly men in Finland and the Netherlands were similar, at around 236 mg/dl (6.10 mmol/liter). The average serum total cholesterol levels of the elderly men in italy were about 10 mg/dl (0.26 mmol/liter) lower. During 25 years of follow-up, the average serum total cholesterol level increa... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1990 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27585292 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/131/5/855 |