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Antioxidant vitamins, free radicals and coronary heart disease.
1990-01-01
Abstract excerpt
In 1988 over half of the deaths in the world were due to heart disease. The recognised risk factors for coronary heart disease are smoking, plasma cholesterol levels and hypertension. These factors, however, account only for some 50-60 percent of the variance in incidence of the disease between countries; so other factors must contribute. Recent biochemical evidence suggests that in conditions of oxidant stress a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 718b05db-8b88-5c62-aec9-f502e9821c40
- DOI
- 10.1108/eum0000000002328