Atherosclerosis
Volume 205, Issue 2 , Pages 626-631 , August 2009

Cardiovascular risk screening in school children predicts risk in parents

  • Peter Schwandt

      Affiliations

    • Arteriosklerose-Praeventions-Institut and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Arteriosklerose-Präventions-Institut, Wilbrechtstr.95, 81477 München, Germany. Tel.: +49 89 7904191; fax: +49 89 74994941.
    • ,
  • Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari

      Affiliations

    • Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Hannes B. Staehelin

      Affiliations

    • Geriatric University Clinic, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Gerda-Maria Haas

      Affiliations

    • Arteriosklerose-Praeventions-Institut, Munich-Nuremberg, Germany

Received 30 December 2008 ,Revised 9 January 2009 ,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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☆ Presented on 01 Sept 2008 as an oral communication at the ESC Congress 2008 in Munich.

PII: S0021-9150(09)00070-7

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.01.019

Atherosclerosis
Volume 205, Issue 2 , Pages 626-631 , August 2009

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