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Studies from Archimedes, Inc. describe new findings in heart disease

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, March 17th, 2009

"People with diabetes have an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). An unanswered question is what portion of CAD can be attributed to insulin resistance, related metabolic variables, and other known CAD risk factors," investigators in the United States report.

"The Archimedes model was used to estimate the proportion of myocardial infarctions that would be prevented by maintaining insulin resistance and Other risk factors at healthy levels. Person-specific data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1998-2004 were used to create a simulated population representative of young adults ill the U.S. This population was then entered into a...

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