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Should your family history of coronary heart disease scare you?
The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York - 1 Jan 2000
Prabhakaran Dorairaj, Jeemon Panniyammakal
Abstract excerpt
Traditional risk factors explain most of the risk associated with coronary heart disease, and after adjustment for risk factors family history was believed to contribute very little to population-attributable risk of coronary heart disease. However, the INTERHEART study demonstrated an independent association of family history of coronary heart disease with acute myocardial infarction. To assess this relationship...
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