Association of family history with cardiovascular disease in hypertensive individuals in a multiethnic population

L Valerio, RJ Peters, AH Zwinderman… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Hypertension alone is a poor predictor of the individual risk of cardiovascular
disease. Hereditary factors of which hypertension is merely a marker may explain why some …

Relation between family history of premature coronary artery disease and the risk of death in patients with coronary artery disease

A Abdi-Ali, AA Shaheen, D Southern, M Zhang… - The American journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Family history (FHx) of premature coronary artery disease (CAD) is a risk factor for
development of incident cardiovascular disease. However the association between FHx and …

Contrasting mortality risks among subgroups of treated hypertensive patients developing new-onset diabetes

S Lip, P Jeemon, L McCallum… - European Heart …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aims Hypertension and diabetes mellitus (DM) frequently cluster together and synergistically
increase cardiovascular risk. Among those who develop DM during treatment for …

Coronary calcium scoring for long-term mortality prediction in patients with and without a family history of coronary disease

JT Knapper, F Khosa, MJ Blaha, TA Lebeis, J Kay… - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
Objective Minimal data are available regarding the long-term mortality risk of subclinical
atherosclerosis using coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring among patients with a family …

[HTML][HTML] Intervención genética en la cardiopatía isquémica temprana

A Arredondo Bruce, MA Sifontes Estrada… - Revista Médica …, 2016 - scielo.sld.cu
Introducción: La aparición prematura de la enfermedad coronaria en una misma familia ha
sido reconocida y se ha establecido como un factor de riesgo independiente de la …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic intervention in the early ischemic heart disease

AA Bruce, MAS Estrada, AA Rubido - Revista Médica Electrónica, 2016 - medigraphic.com
Introduction: The premature appearance of the coronary heart disease in oneself family has
been recognized and has settled down as a factor of independent risk of the coronary …