American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 3 , Pages 548-555, March 2009

The triglyceride/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio predicts all-cause mortality in women with suspected myocardial ischemia:

A Report From the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)

  • Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH, Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 701 19th Street South-LHRB 310, Birmingham, Alabama 35294.
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  • B. Delia Johnson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Issam Zineh, PharmD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacy Practice and Center for Pharmacogenomics, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, FL
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  • William J. Rogers, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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  • Diane Vido, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • Oscar C. Marroquin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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  • C. Noel Bairey-Merz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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  • George Sopko, MD

      Affiliations

    • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Received 4 August 2008; accepted 18 November 2008.

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 Funding sources: This work was supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes, nos. N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, N01-HV-68164; grants U0164829, U01 HL649141, U01 HL649241, GCRC grant MO1-RR00425 from the National Center for Research Resources; and grants from the Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation (Denville, NJ), The Women's Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, CA), The Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA), and The Edythe Broad Endowment for Women's Heart Research (Los Angeles, CA).

PII: S0002-8703(08)01031-4

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2008.11.014

American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 3 , Pages 548-555, March 2009

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