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Single nucleotide polymorphisms and health behaviours related to obesity - trawling the evidence in the prospect of personalised prevention.
Studies in health technology and informatics - 1 Jan 2009
Fister Kristina, Polasek Ozren, Vuletić Silvije, Kern Josipa
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Efforts aimed at primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the major killer of contemporary adult populations, largely rely on modification of risk behaviours related to smoking, physical activity, dietary intake, and alcohol consumption, and also control of obesity and hypertension, the interim risk states between health and disease. We propose that the extent to which the gene x 'obesogenic'...
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