Original articleWill lowering population levels of serum cholesterol affect total mortality? Expectations from the honolulu heart program☆
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Preliminary versions of portions of this paper were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Epidemiological Society, Baltimore, 23 March 1990; the NHLBI Conference on Low Blood Cholesterol: Disease Associations, Bethesda, 12 October 1990; and the Society for Epidemiological Research, Buffalo, 12 June 1991.