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Cardiovascular risk factors associated with insulin resistance cluster in families with early-onset coronary heart disease.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Aug 2001
Kareinen A, Viitanen L, Halonen P, Lehto S, Laakso M
Abstract excerpt
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a multifactorial disease caused by environmental and genetic factors. CHD clusters in families, but it is not known whether susceptibility to early-onset CHD is associated with the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors. Therefore, we determined the levels of cardiovascular risk factors among siblings with and without severe early-onset CHD drawn from 101 Finnish families....
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