Is cardiomegaly more common in African Americans?
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Genotypes associated with myocardial infarction risk are more common in African Americans than in European Americans.
OBJECTIVES This study was designed to describe the frequencies of multiple myocardial infarction (MI) risk-associated genotypes among different racial groups. BACKGROUND Racial disparities in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are well known. Recent large Japanese case-control studies identified connexin-37 (GJA-4), plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and stromelysin-1 (MMP...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(96)80637-1