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Familial correlations, cohabitation effects, and heritability for cardiovascular risk factors.
Annals of epidemiology - 1 May 1996
Knuiman M W, Divitini M L, Welborn T A, Bartholomew H C
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Familial correlations in cardiovascular risk factors were investigated with use of data from a community-based sample of 1319 nuclear families involving 4178 adult persons collected in the Busselton Population Health Surveys over the period 1966 to 1981. The risk factors considered were systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, body mass index, triceps fatfold, and cholesterol. All risk factors showed...
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