Fifty-three year follow-up of coronary heart disease versus HDL2 and other lipoproteins in Gofman's Livermore Cohort

To assess the relationships of lipoprotein mass concentrations to all-cause and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality, we analyzed the prospective 53-year follow-up of 1,905 men measured for lipoprotein mass concentrations by analytic ultracentrifugation between 1954 and 1957. Cause of death was determined from medical records and death certificates before 1979 and from National Death Index death diagnoses thereafter. Of the 1,329 men (69.8%)...