Utility of genetic determinants of lipids and cardiovascular events in assessing risk.

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The prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major public-health goal, but disease architecture is such that a larger proportion of clinical events occur among the average majority than among the high-risk minority--the prevention paradox. Genetic findings over the past few years have resulted in the reopening of the old debate on whether an individualized or a population-based approach to prevention is...

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