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Tavia Gordon
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 83
Citations - 27063
Tavia Gordon is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Framingham Heart Study & Framingham Risk Score. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 83 publications receiving 26614 citations. Previous affiliations of Tavia Gordon include United States Public Health Service.
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High density lipoprotein as a protective factor against coronary heart disease: The Framingham study
TL;DR: The major potent lipid risk factor was HDL cholesterol, which had an inverse association with the incidence of coronary heart disease in either men or women and these associations were equally significant even when other lipids and other standard risk factors for coronaryHeart disease were taken into consideration.
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Serum Cholesterol, Lipoproteins, and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: The Framingham Study
TL;DR: Risk of coronary heart disease over 14 years was examined prospectively in 2,282 men and 2,845 women according to their antecedent cholesterol and lipoprotein status.
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Morbidity and Mortality in Diabetics In the Framingham Population: Sixteen Year Follow-up Study
TL;DR: In a sixteen year follow-up study in Framingham, it was found that diabetics in general show an increased morbidity and mortality from all cardiovascular causes and Insulin-treated diabetic women showed the greatest relative mortality from coronary heart disease.
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HDL cholesterol and other lipids in coronary heart disease. The cooperative lipoprotein phenotyping study.
William P. Castelli,JosephT. Doyle,Tavia Gordon,Curtis G. Hames,Marthana C. Hjortland,Stephen B. Hulley,Abraham Kagan,W J Zukel +7 more
TL;DR: The relation between coronary heart disease (CHD) prevalence and fasting lipid levels was assessed by a case-control study in five populations with a total of 6859 men and women of black, Japanese and white ancestry drawn from subjects aged 40 years and older from populations in Albany, Framingham, Evans County, Honolulu and San Francisco as discussed by the authors.
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Cholesterol in the prediction of atherosclerotic disease. New perspectives based on the Framingham study.
TL;DR: The previous position that virtually all of the lipid information pertaining to coronary heart disease resided in the serum total cholesterol must be accordingly modified.