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Transgenerational effects of parental cardiovascular disease and risk factors on offspring mortality: family-linkage data from the HUNT Study, Norway.
European journal of preventive cardiology - 1 Jan 2016
Vik Kirsti L, Romundstad Pål, Carslake David, Davey Smith George, Nilsen Tom I L
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BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular risk factors are known to be associated between parents and offspring. However, whether these associations are reflected in increased offspring mortality has not been extensively studied. DESIGN: This was a family study of 32,536 father-offspring and 39,614 mother-offspring pairs who participated in the HUNT Study, Norway. METHODS: Adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for offspring total and...
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