Premature coronary artery disease: An inferred cardiovascular variant or a South Asian genetic disorder?

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 991-992

  Patel, Jeetesh V ^a   Dwivedi, Shridhar ^b   Hughes, Elizabeth A ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INDIA; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 44949106236     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-05-0286     Document Type: Editorial

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