Clinically, hypertension can often be detected in patients who have had cerebrovascular accidents. Patients with hypertension are known to develop atherosclerosis more rapidly than patients without ...

Dec. 17, 2003 — Results of a prospective study published in the December issue of Gut suggest that familial aggregation of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may occur. However, investigators do not rule ...

A new population-based study of a Norwegian registry containing data on more than 5 million individuals has confirmed the existence of powerful familial clustering of complex aetiologies of end-stage ...

Several studies have shown aggregation of autoimmune thyroiditis in families by estimation of thyroid antibodies. However, the prevalence by concurrent estimation with fine-needle aspiration cytology ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Polygenic risk was associated with odds of familial SCAD and likelihood of sporadic cases. Previously implicated ...

THE study of familial aggregation in the rheumatic or connective-tissue diseases has become a popular exercise as attempts to define the role of genetic predisposition have increased. Since ...

Various research findings, mostly from Anglo-American countries, evidence the medical profession to be strongly familial and further suggest that a medical family background may be associated with ...

To the Editor: The observations in the report by Sveinbjörnsdóttir et al. (Dec. 14 issue) 1 are important, but we believe they support a predominantly environmental cause rather than a major genetic ...

In a study that includes nearly 2 million children born in Denmark, researchers have found that there is a higher rate of occurrence of the digestive tract disorder pyloric stenosis among twins and ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 19 (May 12, 2009), pp. 7774-7779 (6 pages) Transgenic mice that model familial (f) ALS, caused by ...