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BELFAST centenarians: a case of optimised cardiovascular risk?
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2010
Bennati E, Murphy A, Cambien F, Whitehead A S, Archbold G P R, Young I S, Rea I M
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INTRODUCTION: Centenarians are reservoirs of genetic and environmental information to successful ageing and local centenarian groups may help us to understand some of these secrets. The current centenarian cohort in Belfast survived the 1970s epidemic of death from coronary heart disease in Northern Ireland, where cardiovascular mortality was almost highest in the world. These centenarians provided an opportunity...
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