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The association of ferritin with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in community-dwellers: The English longitudinal study of ageing
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BACKGROUND: Ferritin constitutes a sensitive iron-storage index and multi-functional protein. Evidence on its association with mortality in general population is scarce and conflicting. We investigated the sex-specific associations of ferritin levels with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in a population-based cohort.
METHODS: Data came from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the national mortality registry. The sample comprised 5,471 participants aged ≥52 years. Bloo...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0178994
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Office for National Statistics, UK
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
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- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- e0178994
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-07
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-22
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1932-6203
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- English
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pubs:700108
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700108
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- 2017-06-19
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- © 2017 Kadoglou, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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