This investigation was designed to determine the extent to which changes in serum
lipid values in treated patients, and the absence of such changes in untreated patients,
correlate with changes in the quantity of calcified plaque determined by electron
beam tomography in asymptomatic patients without clinical coronary artery disease
(CAD).
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Article Info
Publication History
Accepted:
January 21,
2003
Received in revised form:
January 21,
2003
Received:
November 25,
2002
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