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Elosua R, Lluís-Ganella C, Subirana I, Havulinna A, Läll K, Lucas G, Sayols-Baixeras S, Pietilä A, Alver M, Cabrera de León A, Sentí M, Siscovick D, Mellander O, Fischer K, Salomaa V, Marrugat J

Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Ischemic Heart Disease: Is the Confluence of Risk Factors Greater Than the Parts? A Genetic Approach.

Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2016 Jun;9(3):279-86, PMID: 27103211

Cardiovascular risk factors tend to aggregate. The biological and predictive value of this aggregation is questioned and genetics could shed light on this debate. Our aims were to reappraise the impact of risk factor confluence on ischemic heart disease (IHD) risk by testing whether genetic risk scores (GRSs) associated with these factors interact on an additive or multiplicative scale, and to determine whether these interactions provide additional value for predicting IHD risk.