Article
[Cardiovascular risk factors from an aging perspective].
Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde - 4 Jan 2023
Peters Mike J L, Beulens Joline W J, Muller Majon
Abstract excerpt
There is a clear increase in cardiovascular risk with increasing age. However, in relative terms the contribution of individual cardiovascular risk factors such as BMI or blood pressure to the occurrence of cardiovascular disease weakens with age. Whether these weaker associations are causal or driven by other confounding factors is unclear. If such associations are indeed causal, this would imply that...
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