Elevated total cholesterol: Its prevalence and population attributable fraction for mortality from coronary heart disease and ischaemic stroke in the Asia-Pacific region

Elevated total cholesterol: Its prevalence and population attributable fraction for mortality from coronary heart disease and ischaemic stroke in the Asia-Pacific region

Background: About half of the world s cases of cardiovascular disease occur in the Asia-Pacific region. The contribution of serum total cholesterol (TC) to this burden is poorly quantified. Design: The most recent nationally representative data on TC distributions for countries in the region were so...

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Main Authors: Woodward, M., Martiniuk, A., Ying Lee, C., Lam, T., Vanderhoorn, S., Ueshima, H., Fang, X., Kim, H., Rodgers, A., Patel, A., Jamrozik, K., Huxley, Rachel
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Ltd. 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45015

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