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  • Researchers investigated the relationship between lipoprotein (Lp)(a), vitamin D, and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk, hypothesizing there may be an interaction affecting CHD severity.
  • In a study of 348 patients, they measured Lp(a) and vitamin D levels and found that specific combinations of these factors significantly raised the odds of having CHD and higher disease severity.
  • The findings indicate a notable interaction between Lp(a) and vitamin D concerning CHD severity, suggesting the need for further studies to explore this relationship.
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Given both smoking and vitamin D are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) via inflammation and smoking may interfere with the local antiinflammatory effects of vitamin D. We hypothesized that the relationship between smoking and severity of CHD may be modified by vitamin D.A cross-sectional study was conducted.

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Background: Studies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and death risk among patients with hypertension are limited, and the results are inconsistent. We investigated the association between BMI and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality among hypertensive patients in a population of Beijing, China.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 2535 patients with hypertension aged 40 to 91 years from Beijing, China.

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Smoking and Risk of All-cause Deaths in Younger and Older Adults: A Population-based Prospective Cohort Study Among Beijing Adults in China.

Medicine (Baltimore)

January 2016

From the Heart Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University (KL, XY, LX, MZ); Beijing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, (CY, LD); and Pharmacy Department, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (XD).

Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Few studies, however, have examined the modified effects of age on the association between smoking and all-cause mortality.In the current study, the authors estimated the association between smoking and age-specific mortality in adults from Beijing, China.

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