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Comparison of father-offspring and mother-offspring associations of cardiovascular risk factors: family linkage within the population-based HUNT Study, Norway.
International journal of epidemiology - 1 Jun 2014
Vik Kirsti L, Romundstad Pål, Carslake David, Smith George Davey, Nilsen Tom I L
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BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular risk factors are transmitted from parents to offspring; however, the relative contributions of fathers and mothers remain unclear. If maternal exposures during pregnancy influence offspring through the intrauterine environment, associations between mothers and offspring are expected to be stronger than between fathers and offspring. In this family linkage study we compared...
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