Article
Polymorphisms associated with both noncardioembolic stroke and coronary heart disease: vienna stroke registry.
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2009
Luke May M, Lalouschek Wolfgang, Rowland Charles M, Catanese Joseph J, Bolonick Joel I, Bui Nam D, Greisenegger Stefan, Endler Georg, Devlin James J, Mannhalter Christine
Abstract excerpt
Noncardioembolic stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD) may share genetic predispositions. We tested the hypothesis that genetic variants which are associated with risk of CHD would also be associated with risk of noncardioembolic stroke in 562 cases from the Vienna Stroke Registry and 815 controls. We selected 6 gene variants that had been consistently associated with risk of CHD in 3 studies, including the...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
