Middle-age risk factors drive greater lifetime risk for heart disease

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study in today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that while an individual's risk of heart disease may be low in the next five or 10 years, the lifetime risk could still be very high, findings that could have implications for both clinical practice and public health policy.

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