A possible explanation for the racial difference in distribution of large-arterial cerebrovascular disease: Ancestral European settlers evolved genetic resistance to atherosclerosis, but confined to the intracranial arteries

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 637-648

  Mak, W ^a   Cheng, T S ^a   Chan, K H ^a   Cheung, R T F ^a   Ho, S L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FREE RADICAL;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BIODIVERSITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; LIFE STYLE; RISK FACTORS;

HOMO SAPIENS; STENO;

EID: 22544482651     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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