منابع مشابه
How important is family history in ischaemic heart disease?
A positive family history is an established risk factor for ischaemic heart disease, but the size of the contribution relative to classical risks is open to debate. The literature suggests that inherited factors are important in the development of premature ischaemic heart disease, but decline in importance with age. A polymorphism in the angiotensin-converting-enzyme gene was the first new gen...
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OBJECTIVES This article examines the association of family history of heart disease and leisure-time physical activity with incident heart disease. DATA SOURCE The data are from the 1994/95, 1996/97 and 1998/99 longitudinal household components of Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey. This study is based on information provided by 9,255 respondents aged 20 or older who report...
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The relative importance of systolic blood pressure (SBP) versus diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in predicting the risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality is controversial. We have re-examined SBP compared to D BP and other combinations of SBP and D BP in predicting the risk of IHD mortality in a long-term cohort study oflO,541 men and women in the West of Scotland. During a mean fo...
متن کاملIschaemic heart disease.
There can be no truly objective frequency estimate of the susceptibility of the population to ischaemic heart disease: everybody has some degree of susceptibility. The disease kills 1 in 4 of the population, and 1 man in 10 dies of ischaemic heart disease before 65 years of age. The major burden is mortality, though there is often some degree of impairment among survivors of acute attacks. It i...
متن کاملFamily history in "low risk" men with coronary heart disease.
A detailed family history was obtained from men who had earlier been participants in a longitudinal study of coronary heart disease (CHD). Men who developed CHD during the 5-6 years' course of that study were matched with those who had remained free of CHD, using age and initial risk characteristics (blood pressure, plasma cholesterol concentration, smoking habits, and physical activity at work...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/90.11.726b