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Familial risk and heritability of ischemic heart disease and stroke in Danish twins.
Scandinavian journal of public health - 1 Mar 2022
Osler Merete, Villumsen Martin Dalgaard, Jørgensen Martin Balslev, Hjelmborg Jacob V B, Christensen Kaare, Wium-Andersen Marie Kim
Abstract excerpt
Aim: Our aim was to explore whether familial factors influence the risk of ischemic heart disease, stroke, and their co-occurrence. Methods: In total, 23,498 monozygotic and 39,540 same-sex dizygotic twins from the Danish Twin Registry were followed from 1977 to 2011 in the Danish National Patient Registry for ischemic heart disease and stroke. Time-to-event analyses accounting for censoring and competing risk of...
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