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Report of the Conference on Low Blood Cholesterol: Mortality Associations.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Conference was held October 9-10, 1990, to review and discuss existing data on U-shaped relations found between mortality rates and blood total cholesterol levels (TC) in some but not other studies. Presentations were given from 19 cohort studies from the United States, Europe, Israel, and Japan. A representative of each study presented its findings and also submitted tables of …

Authors

Jacobs D; Blackburn H; Higgins M; Reed D; Iso H; McMillan G; Neaton J; Nelson J; Potter J; Rifkind B

Journal

Circulation, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 1046–1060

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

September 1992

DOI

10.1161/01.cir.86.3.1046

ISSN

0009-7322