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Abbott, R. D., Curb, J. D., Rodriguez, B. L., Sharp, D. S., Burchfiel, C. M., and Yano, K. (1996). Effect of dietary calcium and milk consumption on risk of thromboembolic stroke in older middle-aged men. The Honolulu Heart Program. Stroke 27, 813-818. 

Knutsen R, Knutsen SF, Curb JD et al. The predictive value of resting electrocardiograms for 12-year incidence of coronary heart disease in the Honolulu Heart Program. J Clin Epidemiol 1988 41 293. 

Burchfiel CM, Curb JD, Rodriguez BL et al. Glucose intolerance and 22-year stroke incidence. The Honolulu Heart Program. Stroke 1994 25(5) 951-957. 

Hakim, A. A., G.W. Ross, J.D. Curb, et al. 1998. Coffee consumption in hypertensive men in older middle-age and the risk of stroke The Honolulu Heart Program. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 51(6) 487-494. 

For over 25 years, Dr. Friedewald practiced internal medicine and cardiology, initially in 1971 as Director of Diagnostic Laboratories at the Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix. In 1976 he assumed the position of Chief of Cardiology and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Honolulu Medical Group at Queen s Medical Center in Honolulu. He returned to Houston in 1982 to practice cardiology as a member of the faculty at Baylor and serve as Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. 

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