FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 344:608-611 February 22, 2001 Number 8 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article by Berenson, G. S. PubMed Citation

To the Editor: O'Malley et al. (Nov. 2 issue),¹ conclude that psychological factors are not associated with subclinical coronary artery disease as assessed by electron-beam computed tomography. Most of the established factors that influence the risk of coronary artery disease (such as systolic blood pressure, smoking status, and levels of homocysteine, fibrinogen, and insulin) were also not associated with subclinical coronary artery disease in this analysis of 630 healthy U.S. Army personnel. Indeed, only three established risk factors for coronary artery disease (male sex, a higher body-mass index, and a higher level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) had sufficient power to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.