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CORONARY HEART RISK FACTORS IN 177 CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WHOSE FATHERS DIED FROM ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE BEFORE AGE 45
Author(s) -
IBSEN K. K.,
LOUS P.,
ANDERSEN G. E.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1982.tb09483.x
Subject(s) - medicine , coronary heart disease , blood pressure , risk factor , disease , pediatrics , heart disease , framingham risk score , cardiology , physical therapy
. The occurrence of the classical coronary heart risk factors hypertension, hyperlipemia, tobacco smoking and physical inactivity was investigated in a risk group consisting of 177 children and young adults whose fathers died from ischemic heart disease before age 45 and in randomly selected reference individuals. Only hyperlipemia and especially permanent hypercholesterolemia and familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) was much more common in the risk group than in the reference group. Blood pressure values, smoking habits and physical activity level were almost identical in the two groups. Although FH was about ten times more frequent among risk children it does not explain the majority of early coronary deaths among their fathers.