Prospective studies on coronary heart disease in the elderly : the role of classical and new risk factors

In this thesis associations between biological risk factors and the occurrence of coronary heart disease in elderly persons are described. The focus is on classical (i.e. total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol and blood pressure) and some new (i.e. homocysteine, white blood cell count and serum albumin) biological risk factors. The studies are based on two Dutch cohorts. One is a cohort of 292 men and women, aged 64 to 87 years in 1971, from a general practice in Rotterdam, with a mortality follow-up of 17 years. The other is the Dutch cohort of the Seven Countries Study which consists... Mehr ...