Study of common variants of the apolipoprotein E and lipoprotein lipase genes in patients with coronary heart disease and variable body mass index

Genovefa D. Kolovou, Vana Kolovou, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Ioannis Vasiliadis, Vassiliki Giannakopoulou, Peggy M. Kostakou, Vassiliki Vartela, Sophie Mavrogeni

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OBJECTIVE: In the present study, we evaluated the influence of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and apolipoprotein (apo) E polymorphisms on lipid concentrations of 178 Greek men of similar age with coronary heart disease (CHD), but varying body mass index (BMI). DESIGN: Patients were divided according to their BMI …

Late-onset hypogonadism in men. Experience from the Turku Male Ageing Study (TuMAS)

Ilpo Huhtaniemi, Juuso I. Mäkinen, Antti Perheentupa, Olli T. Raitakari

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Interest has arisen during the last 10 years as to the possible connection between the age-related decline in androgen production and symptoms of ageing in men. A new ageing-related syndrome with several descriptive names …

History of the Cretan cohort of the Seven Countries Study

Christos M. Hatzis, Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla, Anthony G. Kafatos

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It was a great pleasure to read the manuscript of Hatzis CM et al, 2013, published in the Hormones Journal. This article presented the results for cardiovascular risk factors of the Cretan cohort of the Seven Countries Study (SCS) …