Chicago Healthy Aging Study: Objectives and Design
Chicago Healthy Aging Study: Objectives and Design
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DOI:
10.1093/aje/kwt020
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发表时间:
2013-08-15
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5
通讯作者:
Daviglus, Martha L.
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作者:
Pirzada, Amber;Reid, Kathryn;Daviglus, Martha L.
Investigators in the Chicago Healthy Aging Study (CHAS) reexamined 1,395 surviving participants aged 65-84 years (28% women) from the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry (CHA) 1967-1973 cohort whose cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profiles were originally ascertained at ages 25-44 years. CHAS investigators reexamined 421 participants who were low-risk (LR) at baseline and 974 participants who were non-LR at baseline. LR was defined as having favorable levels of 4 major CVD risk factors: serum total cholesterol level