Article
Associations of cardiometabolic polygenic risk scores with cardiovascular disease in African Americans
2023-08-30
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a complex disease, and genetic factors contribute individually or cumulatively to CVD risk. While African American women and men are disproportionately affected by CVD, their lack of representation in genomic investigations may widen disparities in health. We investigated the associations of cardiometabolic polygenic risk scores (PRSs) with CVD risk in African...
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- Literature Corpus work
- aa621090-cbbe-5ad7-a42d-441837289c26
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3228815/v1
