RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Diet and ischaemic heart disease
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 37
OP 39
DO 10.1136/dtb.12.10.37
VO 12
IS 10
YR 1974
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/12/10/37.abstract
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.