Major lipids, apolipoproteins, and risk of vascular disease

R Assessment - Jama, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Context Associations of major lipids and apolipoproteins with the risk of vascular disease
have not been reliably quantified. Objective To assess major lipids and apolipoproteins in
vascular risk. Design, Setting, and Participants Individual records were supplied on 302 430
people without initial vascular disease from 68 long-term prospective studies, mostly in
Europe and North America. During 2.79 million person-years of follow-up, there were 8857
nonfatal myocardial infarctions, 3928 coronary heart disease [CHD] deaths, 2534 ischemic …