Serum sialic acid and its correlates in community samples from Akita, Japan and Minneapolis, USA. | Zendy

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Serum sialic acid and its correlates in community samples from Akita, Japan and Minneapolis, USA.

Author(s) -

Gunnar Lindberg,

Hiroyasu Iso,

L. Råstam,

Arne Lundblad,

Aaron R. Folsom

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/26.1.58

Subject(s) - sialic acid , gerontology , medicine , demography , environmental health , biology , sociology , biochemistry

The concentration of serum total sialic acid (S-TSA) is one recently investigated risk marker for cardiovascular mortality and atherosclerosis. Since the mortality from coronary heart disease is higher in the United States than in Japan, one could expect the S-TSA to be higher among Caucasian US citizens than among Japanese citizens, a hypothesis that is tested in this study.

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