Titre :
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Serum insulin and incident coronary heart disease in middle-aged British men. (1996)
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Auteurs :
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I.J. PERRY ;
Kgmm ALBERTI ;
S. GOYA WANNAMETHEE ;
A.G. SHAPER ;
M.K. WALKER ;
P.H. WHINCUP ;
Department of Public Health. The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. London. GBR
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of epidemiology (vol. 144, n° 3, 1996)
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Pagination :
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224-234
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Cardiopathie coronaire
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Epidémiologie
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Homme
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Insuline
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Taux
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Sérum
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Glucose
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Royaume Uni
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Europe
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Appareil circulatoire [pathologie]
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 493BR0x6. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Earlier studies have not resolved the question of whether elevated circulating insulin levels are independently related to the development of coronary heart disease. Previous studies have not used a specific insulin assay and in all but a minority of studies that have addressed this issue it has not been possible to adjust for possible confounding due to high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. The authors examined the relation between serum insulin concentration and major coronary disease events (fatal and non-fatal myocardial infarction) in the British Regional Heart Study. The data are based on 5,550 men (aged 40-59 years) in 18 towns whose baseline, non-fasting serum samples were analyzed for insulin using a specific enzyme-linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) method. Known diabetics were excluded. At 11.5 years of follow-up, 521 major coronary disease events had occurred, 261 fatal and 260 non-fatal. A nonlinear relation between serum insulin and coronary disease events was observed with an almost twofold increased relative risk in the 10th decile of the serum insulin distribution ( 33.8 mU/liter) relative to the 1st to the 9th deciles combined (age-adjusted relative risk (RR)=1.9,95% confidence interval (CI) 1.6-2.4). (...)
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