Abstract
We studied 4,963 participants of the population-based Rotterdam Study and found that a genetically determined chronic exposure to low insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) levels is associated with an increased risk for heart failure in elderly patients.
MeSH terms
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Age Distribution
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Alleles
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Cohort Studies
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Confidence Intervals
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Female
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Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
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Heart Failure / epidemiology*
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Heart Failure / genetics*
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Humans
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Incidence
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor I / genetics*
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Male
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Polymorphism, Genetic*
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Prognosis
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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Proportional Hazards Models
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Prospective Studies
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Risk Assessment
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Sex Distribution
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Survival Analysis
Substances
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Insulin-Like Growth Factor I