Blood pressure, cholesterol, and common causes ol death: A review

Journal article

Many prospective observational studies have reported on associations of blood pressure and blood cholesterol with cardiovascular disease, but few have been large enough to provide reliable estimates of the nature of these associations in different circumstances (or on the associations with nonvascular causes of death). Moreover, almost all such reports have related risk of disease to baseline measurements of the risk factor of interest, which can lead to substantial underestimation of the imp...

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Authors: Lewington, S; MacMahon, S; Collaboration, PS

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 96S-98S
• Publication date: 1999-10-01
• ISSN: 0895-7061
• Language: English
• Keywords: blood pressure; blood cholesterol; Prospective Studies Collaboration; coronary heart disease