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Familial effects on survival after myocardial infarction: a registry-based sib-pair study.
European journal of epidemiology - 1 Dec 2012
Ekberg Sara, Ploner Alexander, de Faire Ulf, Pedersen Nancy L, Bennet Anna M
Abstract excerpt
The chance of surviving an acute myocardial infarction (MI) has increased greatly but many persons still die as a consequence of MI. We assessed the familiality of suffering fatal MI using Swedish registry data. All 4,239 sib-pairs (n = 8,478) where both siblings had suffered an MI and who were born 1932 or later were identified by matching the Swedish National Patient-, Cause of Death and Multi-Generation...
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