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Associations between education level, blood-lipid measurements and statin treatment in a Danish primary health care population from 2000 to 2018

Marius Mølsted Flegea Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4948-1581
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Margit Kriegbaumb Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Henrik Løvendahl Jørgensena Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark;c Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bent Struer Linda Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Lise Bathuma Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Christen Lykkegaard Andersena Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark;d Department of Hematology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Anna Elise Engella Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Pages 170-178 | Received 05 Nov 2022, Accepted 29 Mar 2023, Published online: 10 Apr 2023

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