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Article: Research from University of California has provided new information about heart disease risk factors.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- June 28, 2009
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Researchers detail in 'Heart disease risk factors in midlife predict subclinical coronary atherosclerosis more than 25 years later in survivors without clinical heart disease: the Rancho Bernardo Study,' new data in heart disease. In this recent article published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To determine which of the classic modifiable coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors, measured in midlife, are associated with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in older age. Prospective study. Community based. Participants were 400 community-dwelling middle-aged adults who had no history of CHD at baseline ...