Association of Family History With Cardiovascular Disease in Hypertensive Individuals in a Multiethnic Population

BackgroundHypertension 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 hypertensive individuals appear more susceptible to cardiovascular disease, and why some ethnicities have more often see...

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Main Authors: Luca Valerio, Ron J. Peters, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Sara‐Joan Pinto‐Sietsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
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Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.004260