Copyright © 2011 Informa UK Ltd. ; Background: Atherosclerosis -a major cause of vascular disease, including ischemic heart disease (IHD), is a pathology that has a two-fold higher mortality rate in the Azorean Islands compared to mainland Portugal. Aim: This cross-sectional study investigated the role of genetic variation in the prevalence of atherosclerosis in this population. Subjects and methods: A total o...
European Human Genetics Conference 2009: Abstract P17.18 em Livro de Resumos. Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Saturday, May 23 – Tuesday, May 26, 2009. ; The factors leading to a two-fold mortality rate from coronary artery disease (CAD) in the Azores, as compared to Mainland Portugal, have not been elucidated. Previous studies reported a population tendency for hypercholesterolemia, one of the main fa...
XIII Expedição Científica do Departamento de Biologia - Flores e Corvo 2007. ; As doenças cardiovasculares constituem a principal causa de morte, morbilidade e invalidez em Portugal, sendo a taxa de mortalidade por doença isquémica cardíaca cerca de duas vezes maior nos Açores do que no continente português (DGS, 2006). A aterosclerose, a principal causa das doenças vasculares, é uma doença crónica, em que o p...
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