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The authors are grateful to Jorge Morgado (Health Centre of Nordeste), Jorge Oliveira (Health Centre of Povoacao), Emiliana Dias (Health Centre of Sta Cruz das Flores), Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Health Centre of Sta Cruz da Graciosa), Jose Aires Raposo (Health Centre of Ribeira Grande), Cesar Goncalves (Health Centre of Velas Sao Jorge), and Maria Joao Carreiro and Teresa Teles Costa (Health Centre of Ponta Delgada,) and to all the technical staff for their support in blood collection and in the determination of serum lipid profile. Also, we would like to thank all participants who voluntary enrolled in this study. Lisbon Project Grant FCT_PIC /IC/83020/2007; RF is supported by a FRC Post-Doc grant (M3.1.7/F/020/2011), AL is supported by FRC PhD grant (M3.1.2/F/017/2011), and ACA was funded by FCT SFRH / BD / 27990 / 2006 and FCT_PTDC/SAU-GMG/101874/2008.

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