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Elevated HDL cholesterol is a risk factor for ischemic heart disease in white women when caused by a common mutation in the cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene.
Circulation - 25 Apr 2000
Agerholm-Larsen B, Nordestgaard B G, Steffensen R, Jensen G, Tybjaerg-Hansen A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The level of HDL cholesterol is inversely related to the risk of ischemic heart disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: In 9168 women and men from a general population and 946 women and men with ischemic heart disease (all white), we tested the hypothesis that the Ile405Val mutation in the chol...
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