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Correlates of preclinical cardiovascular disease in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians: a case control study

BACKGROUND: The high frequency of premature death from cardiovascular disease in indigenous Australians is often attributed to the high prevalence of risk factors, especially type II diabetes mellitus (DM). We evaluated the relationship of ethnicity to atherosclerotic burden, as evidenced by carotid...

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Autores principales: Haluska, Brian A, Chan, Lionel, Jeffriess, Leanne, Shaw, A Andrew, Shaw, Joanne, Marwick, Thomas H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2500007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18627637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-6-36