Why the study?
What is the biological expression of a paternal history of premature AMI and the relative share of heredity and environment in young people?
Population
Young people, offspring of fathers who suffered from a documented acute myocardial infarction before the age…
Design
Case-control
Authors
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Does not yet alter clinical management of familial risk; leaves open the relative contributions of heredity and environment to premature CHD in offspring.
What is the biological expression of a paternal history of premature AMI and the relative share of heredity and environment in young people?
The EARS study is designed to investigate the genetic and environmental factors contributing to premature coronary heart disease in the offspring of fathers with early myocardial infarction.
The EARS Group (1994) studied this question.
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