Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 173-181 , March 2011

Prevalence of blood lipid disturbances in Swedish and foreign-born 60-year-old men and women in Stockholm, Sweden

  • P.E. Wändell

      Affiliations

    • Center for Family and Community Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels allé 12, SE-14183 Huddinge, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 8 52488717; fax: +46 8 52488706.
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  • A.C. Carlsson

      Affiliations

    • Center for Family and Community Medicine, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels allé 12, SE-14183 Huddinge, Sweden
    • ,
  • U. de Faire

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17170 Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, SE-17170 Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • M.-L. Hellénius

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, SE-17170 Stockholm, Sweden

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 4 September 2009 ,Accepted 10 September 2009.

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PII: S0939-4753(09)00220-8

doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2009.09.007

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 173-181 , March 2011

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