Blood lipid concentrations and other cardiovascular risk factors: distribution, prevalence, and detection in Britain

BMJ - Tập 296 Số 6638 - Trang 1702-1706 - 1988
J I Mann1, Basil S. Lewis2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8, J. Shepherd2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8, A F Winder2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8, S Fenster2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8, Ludger Rose2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8, B. Morgan2,3,1,4,5,6,7,8
1Department of Community Medicine, University of Oxford.
2Bristol Myers Pharmaceuticals, Uxbridge UBIO 8NS
3Department of Chemical Pathology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 OSF
4Leicester Royal Infirmary and Faculty of Medicine, University of Leicester
5Nutrition Department, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
6Radcliffe Hospital) B MORGAN, SRN, research nurse Department of Chemical Pathology and Metabolic Diseases, United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1 7EH
7Professor
8research manager L ROSE, BSC, MIBIOL, medical

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(Accepted 25 February 1988)