PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - ,
TI  - Diet and ischaemic heart disease
AID  - 10.1136/dtb.12.10.37
DP  - 1974 May 10
TA  - Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
PG  - 37--39
VI  - 12
IP  - 10
4099  - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/12/10/37.short
4100  - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/12/10/37.full
SO  - Drug Ther Bull1974 May 10; 12
AB  - The list of factors associated with a risk of increased atherosclerosis and its consequences is long and is lengthening. But most of the predictive power for ischaemic heart disease (IHD) resides in a small number which includes age, the plasma-cholesterol concentration, the blood pressure and cigarette smoking.1 2 Of these, age (though not necessarily ageing) is immutable; the other three factors offer more scope for intervention.