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Hereditary hemochromatosis genotypes and risk of ischemic stroke.
Neurology - 27 Mar 2007
Ellervik C, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Appleyard M, Sillesen H, Boysen G, Nordestgaard B G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We tested the hypothesis that the HFE genotypes H63D/H63D, H63D/wild type, C282Y/H63D, C282Y/C282Y, and C282Y/wild type are risk factors for symptomatic carotid atherosclerosis, ischemic cerebrovascular disease (ICVD), and ischemic stroke. METHODS: We performed an age- and gender-matched case-control study of 701 cases with symptomatic carotid atherosclerosis vs 2,777 controls, and a prospective study...
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