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Risk factors for atherosclerosis in twins

โœ Scribed by Dr. David L. Duffy; Dianne L. O'Connell; Richard F. Heller; Nicholas G. Martin

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
333 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0741-0395

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โœฆ Synopsis

We performed multivariate genetic analyses of cardiovascular risk factors from two sets of data on US and Australian female twins. Similar models for bodymass index (BMI), serum low density (LDL) and high density (HDL) lipoproteins, including age as a covariate, were fitted successfully to both groups. These suggested that BMI, or genes responsible for a significant proportion of the variance of BMI, explained correlations between lipid subfractions, as well as those between blood pressure and lipid subfractions, especially HDL.

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