Data Type Details: Medical Laboratory

Details Pertaining to Medical Laboratory

Principal Investigator: Reubin Andres
Collaborating Investigators: E. Jeffrey Metter
Year First Collected: 1958
Year Last Collected: 1998
Frequency of Collection: Every visit
Subset Data Files on the VMS Cluster? Files info002.*, Active as of 11/97. For access to these data, please contact Dr. E. Jeffrey Metter.

Data Type Notes:

8/4/1988: GRC indicates GRC laboratory; BS indicates BIOSCIENCE laboratory. In the absence of these indicators, cards 2 & 3 are repeats.

5/3/1989: For results equal to all 9s, CHECK THE LAB REPORT in the chart.

05/26/95: Beware that cards 1, 2 & 3 are NOT identical in terms of layout: e.g. columns 63-65

06/09/98: 2 day visit Descriptive History:

Hershcopf, R.J., Elahi, D., Andres, R., Baldwin, H.L., Raizes, G.S., Schocken, D.D., Tobin, J.D. Longitudinal changes in serum cholesterol in man: an epidemiologic search for an etiology. J Chronic Dis. 35(2): 101-14,1982.
Sorkin, J.D., Andres, R., Muller, D.C., Baldwin, H.L., Fleg, J.L. Cholesterol as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in elderly men. The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Ann Epidemiol. 2(1-2): 59-67,1992.
Hallfrisch, J., Singh, V.N., Muller, D.C., Baldwin, H., Bannon, M.E., Andres, R. High plasma vitamin C associated with high plasma HDL- and HDL2 cholesterol. Am J Clin Nutr. 60(1): 100-5,1994.

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