LDL Cholesterol and the Development of Stroke Subtypes and Coronary Heart Disease in a General Japanese Population: The Hisayama Study

• Published in: Stroke (1970) Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 382 - 388
• Main Authors: Imamura, Tsuyoshi, Doi, Yasufumi, Arima, Hisatomi, Yonemoto, Koji, Hata, Jun, Kubo, Michiaki, Tanizaki, Yumihiro, Ibayashi, Setsuro, Iida, Mitsuo, Kiyohara, Yutaka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD American Heart Association, Inc 01.02.2009; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Subjects: Age Factors; Aged; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology; Cholesterol, LDL - blood; Cohort Studies; Coronary Disease - blood; Coronary Disease - epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Health Surveys; Humans; Japan - epidemiology; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Stroke - blood; Stroke - classification; Stroke - epidemiology; Terminology as Topic; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Japan; Stroke; Nervous system diseases; risk factors; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary heart disease; Epidemiology; Japanese; Cholesterol; Cerebral disorder; Vascular disease; Lipoprotein LDL; Central nervous system disease; Risk factor; Cerebrovascular disease; lipoproteins

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE—Although the relation between serum LDL cholesterol level and coronary heart disease (CHD) is well established, its relation with stroke subtypes is less clear. METHODS—A total of 2351 inhabitants age ≥40 years in a Japanese community were followed up for 19 years. RESULTS—Dur...