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Butyrylcholinesterase activity and risk factors for coronary artery disease.
Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation - 1 Jan 2002
Alcântara V M, Chautard-Freire-Maia E A, Scartezini M, Cerci M S J, Braun-Prado K, Picheth G
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to verify which risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) are independently correlated with butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) activity. We studied 88 White individuals (43 males) aged 47.3+/-15.7 years (mean+/-SD; range: 14.0-80.0 years) including 38 with hyperlipidemia, 30 with hypertension and 5 with diabetes mellitus (DM). Simple correlation analysis showed that BChE activity was...
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