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Association of Family History With Cardiovascular Disease in Hypertensive Individuals in a Multiethnic Population.
Journal of the American Heart Association - 21 Dec 2016
Valerio Luca, Peters Ron J, Zwinderman Aeilko H, Pinto-Sietsma Sara-Joan
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BACKGROUND: Hypertension alone is a poor predictor of the individual risk of cardiovascular disease. Hereditary factors of which hypertension is merely a marker may explain why some hypertensive individuals appear more susceptible to cardiovascular disease, and why some ethnicities have more often seemingly hypertension-related cardiovascular disease than others. We hypothesize that, in hypertensive individuals,...
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