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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Retinal vessel diameter may predict CHD death

MedWire News - Cardiology - Retinal vessel diameter may predict CHD death

MedWire News: Retinal vessel diameter is associated with the risk for death from coronary heart disease (CHD) in middle-aged people, reports an international team of researchers.

"Our findings, if confirmed in other populations, suggest that retinal vessel diameter could be a prognostic marker of death from cardiovascular events in middle-aged persons," the authors conclude in the European Heart Journal.

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