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Nutritional mechanisms that influence cardiovascular disease.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Feb 2006
De Caterina Raffaele, Zampolli Antonella, Del Turco Serena, Madonna Rosalinda, Massaro Marika
Abstract excerpt
Current evidence suggests that most significant risk factors for heart disease have been identified. Although age, sex, and genetics are important unmodifiable risk factors, most new cases of acute myocardial infarctions today can be predicted by the presence and level of 9 risk (or cardioprotective) factors that can easily be assessed and, most importantly, modified. These risk factors are the same in almost...
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