Article
Family history assessment: strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease.
American journal of preventive medicine - 1 Feb 2003
Hunt Steven C, Gwinn Marta, Adams Ted D
Abstract excerpt
Family history assessment can be used to combine population-wide health promotion and risk-reduction efforts with a high-risk, targeted approach to help reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Family history is an independent predictor of CVD, and the upper portion of the family history distribution explains a larger fraction of CVD in the population than can be explained by extreme values of other...
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