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Familial hypercholesterolemia in Brazil.
Atherosclerosis. Supplements - 1 Nov 2003
Dos Santos J E, Zago M A
Abstract excerpt
The Brazilian population has heterogeneous ethnic origins and is unevenly distributed in a country of continental dimensions. In addition to the Portuguese colonists until the end of the World War II Brazil received almost 5 million immigrants who settled mainly in the south and southeast. This features of the Brazilian population have two important consequences for the inherited diseases that are associated with...
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