Risk factors predict survival and likelihood of cardiovascular events
Pippa Murdie
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Although mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) has decreased steadily in the US over the past 40 years, some cardiovascular risk factors are currently increasing in prevalence and threaten to reverse this trend. Lloyd-Jones et al. reviewed the 7,926 participants from the Framingham Heart Study who were free of CVD at 50 years of age to investigate the role of established risk factors in long-term risk of CVD.
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