Evaluating prothrombotic risk factors independently may underestimate their contribution to myocardial infarction, as they strongly interact with traditional atherosclerotic risk factors.
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MI risk assessment should integrate heritable and traditional factors rather than evaluate them separately; hypothesis-generating for interaction-focused studies.
Siscovick et al. (1997) studied this question.
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