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Does parental premature cardiovascular disease predict arterial calcification in offspring?

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boxed-textParikh NI et al. (2007) Parental occurrence of premature cardiovascular disease predicts increased coronary artery and abdominal aortic calcification in the Framingham Offspring and Third Generation cohorts. Circulation 116: 1473–1481

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  1. Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, IMM, Nobels väg 13, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden ulf.defaire@ki.se

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  1. and Senior Consultant in Cardiovascular Medicine at Department of Cardiology, U de Faire is Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.,

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U de Faire has received research support from AstraZeneca, Athera Biotechnologies, and Merck. He is also a Director and patent holder for Athera Biotechnologies.

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