Diagonal Earlobe Creases and Atheromatous Disease: A Postmortem Study

The association between the grade of earlobe creases and degree of atheromatous disease was investigated in 376 postmortem examinations. Each earlobe crease was individually graded from 0 to 3. The risk of atherosclerosis as a cause of death was nearly doubled in men with grade 3 creases in both ear...

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Autores principales: Patel, V., Champ, C., Andrews, P. S., Gostelow, B. E., Gunasekara, N. P. R., Davidson, A.R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5375484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1404022
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Champ, C.
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Gunasekara, N. P. R.
Davidson, A.R.
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description The association between the grade of earlobe creases and degree of atheromatous disease was investigated in 376 postmortem examinations. Each earlobe crease was individually graded from 0 to 3. The risk of atherosclerosis as a cause of death was nearly doubled in men with grade 3 creases in both earlobes, and more than trebled in women with bilateral high-grade creases. The risk of death from myocardial infarction was 2.50 in men with high-grade creases and 3.70 in women. The earlobe crease is an important sign of atheromatous disease and it may be useful to include it in the clinical examination of patients.
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spelling pubmed-53754842019-01-22 Diagonal Earlobe Creases and Atheromatous Disease: A Postmortem Study Patel, V. Champ, C. Andrews, P. S. Gostelow, B. E. Gunasekara, N. P. R. Davidson, A.R. J R Coll Physicians Lond Original Papers The association between the grade of earlobe creases and degree of atheromatous disease was investigated in 376 postmortem examinations. Each earlobe crease was individually graded from 0 to 3. The risk of atherosclerosis as a cause of death was nearly doubled in men with grade 3 creases in both earlobes, and more than trebled in women with bilateral high-grade creases. The risk of death from myocardial infarction was 2.50 in men with high-grade creases and 3.70 in women. The earlobe crease is an important sign of atheromatous disease and it may be useful to include it in the clinical examination of patients. Royal College of Physicians of London 1992-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5375484/ /pubmed/1404022 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1992 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1404022
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