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Do obesity and parental history of myocardial infarction improve cardiovascular risk prediction?
European journal of preventive cardiology - 1 Oct 2013
van Dis Ineke, Geleijnse Johanna M, Kromhout Daan, Boer Jolanda M A, Boshuizen Hendriek, Verschuren W M Monique
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BACKGROUND: In clinical practice, individuals at increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are identified on the basis of age, sex, smoking, blood pressure, and serum total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. We examined whether CVD risk prediction improved when obesity (body mass ind...
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