The interrelationship of serum cholesterol, hypertension, body weight, and risk of coronary disease

Results during more than ten years' follow-up of the Los Angeles Heart Study population reveal differences in factors associated with risk of myocardial infarction or sudden death compared to factors associated with angina pectoris. null High incidence of myocardial infarction was related primarily to high serum cholesterol levels, and angina pectoris to hypertension. Relative weight had little or no effect on these risks other than accounted...