Population
141 children who died under one year of age at the Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Supports genetic hypotheses for early coronary differences in high-mortality regions; leaves open links to adult CHD outcomes.
The finding of thicker inner vascular layers in the coronary arteries of infants from eastern Finland, a region with high CHD mortality, supports a genetic component in the etiology of coronary heart disease.
Pesonen et al. (1975) studied this question.
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