Dietary Antioxidant Vitamins and Death from Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women
Open Access
- 2 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 334 (18), 1156-1162
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199605023341803
Abstract
The role of dietary antioxidant vitamins in preventing coronary heart disease has aroused considerable interest because of the knowledge that oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein may promote atherosclerosis.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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