Alcohol consumption and coronary artery calcium in middle-aged Japanese men.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on May 19, 2006

Authors

Tomonori Okamura1, Takashi Kadowaki, Akira Sekikawa, Kiyoshi Murata, Naomi Miyamatsu, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Aiman El-Saed, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Hiroshi Maegawa, Yoshihiko Nishio, Tomoko Takamiya, Hideyuki Kanda, Kenichi Mitsunami, Yoshikuni Kita, Daniel Edmundowicz, Shinji Tamaki, Yasuyuki Tsujita, Lewis H Kuller, Hirotsugu Ueshima

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, and Department of Medicine, Kohka Public Hospital, Shiga, Japan. tokamura@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

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