Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa PlA2/PlA2 homozygosity associated with risk of ischemic cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction in young men
The Copenhagen City Heart Study
Stig E. Bojesen, MD, PhD*,
Klaus Juul, MD*,
Peter Schnohr, MD
,
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, MD, DMSc
and
B.ørge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc*
,*
* Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
The Copenhagen City Heart Study, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curves showing 22-year cumulative incidence of ischemic cardiovascular disease according to PlA genotype for men and women combined, men alone, and women alone.
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