Insulin as a predictor of coronary heart disease: interaction with apolipoprotein E phenotype. A report from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.

doi:10.1016/1047-2797(94)90041-8

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Insulin as a predictor of coronary heart disease: interaction with apolipoprotein E phenotype. A report from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial.

Annals of epidemiology - 1 Jan 1994

Orchard T J, Eichner J, Kuller L H, Becker D J, McCallum L M, Grandits G A

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The objective of this study was to examine whether fasting serum insulin is a predictor of coronary heart disease in high-risk US men, and whether any such predictive role explains the enhanced cardiovascular risk seen in subjects with the apolipoprotein (Apo) E 3/2 phenotype. This was a nested case-control study of participants in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Ninety-four subjects who died from...

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