Category Archives: Cardiovascular Disease

In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP

Social Epi Cluster members Stephen Mooney and Gina Lovasi recently led an investigation into neighborhood and genetic contributions to cardiac arrest risk, finding that about 75% more cardiac arrest cases who had a high-risk genetic variant lived in socioeconomically deprived … Continue reading

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IPV in late adolescence and young adulthood and subsequent cardiovascular risk in adulthood.

Shakira Suglia and colleagues recently published an article describing the relation between Intimate partner violence (IPV) in adolescence and young adulthood and cardiovascular risk in adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) the … Continue reading

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