[Does an early heart attack in a parent indicate increased cardiovascular risk in the offspring?].
In a 5-year period analyzed were cardiovascular risk factors in 55 patients suffering from premature coronary accidents (below the age of 45) and in their 97 offsprings, aged 3-26 years. In 50 of these children (51.6%), 22 girls and 28 boys, in addition to the obvious positive family history, detected were other cardiovascular risk factors. The most common among them was hypercholesterolemia (in 45.0%), followed by arterial hypertension (40.0%), obesity (32.0%) and smoking (24.0%). Majority of these offsprings (64.0%) had only one additional risk factor. The average blood pressure, relative weight and cholesterol levels were significantly higher in these very children than in all the coronary offsprings (p < 0.05), and even more so (p < 0.01) than in the matching control sample.
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Skolska poliklinika, Dom zdravlja Split.
Rumboldt
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Pesenti
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Matoković
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D012307:Risk Factors