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Family risk score of coronary heart disease (CHD) as a predictor of CHD: the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study and The NHLBI Family Heart Study

✍ Scribed by Rongling Li; Jeannette T. Bensen; Richard G. Hutchinson; Michael A. Province; Irva Hertz-Picciotto; J. Michael Sprafka; Herman A. Tyroler

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 91 KB
Volume: 18
Category: Article
ISSN: 0741-0395
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2272(200003)18:3<236::aid-gepi4>3.0.co;2-0

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Family history of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been found to be a risk factor for CHD in numerous studies. Few studies have addressed whether a quantitative measure of family history of CHD (family risk score, FRS) predicts CHD in African Americans. This study assessed the association between FRS and incident CHD of participants, and the variation of the association by gender and race. Participants in the study were a biracial population-based cohort with 3,958 African Americans and 10,580 Whites aged 45-64 years old in the ARIC baseline survey (1987)(1988)(1989). They were randomly selected from four U. S. communities. During follow-up (1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993), 352 participants experienced the onset of

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