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The role of genetic predisposition in cardiovascular risk after cancer diagnosis: a matched cohort study of the UK Biobank.
British journal of cancer - 1 Nov 2022
Yang Huazhen, Zeng Yu, Chen Wenwen, Sun Yajing, Hu Yao, Ying Zhiye, Wang Junren, Qu Yuanyuan, Fang Fang, Valdimarsdóttir Unnur A, Song Huan
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BACKGROUND: Evidence is scarce regarding the potential modifying role of disease susceptibility on the association between a prior cancer diagnosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD). METHODS: We conducted a matched cohort study of UK Biobank including 78,860 individuals with a cancer diagnosis between January 1997 and January 2020, and 394,300 birth year and sex individually matched unexposed individuals. We used...
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