Within
Normal Limits
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Reason

"Chance is the very guide of life"

"In practical medicine the facts are far too few for them to enter into the calculus of probabilities... in applied medicine we are always concerned with the individual" -- S. D. Poisson

October 27, 2005

NEJM -- Trajectories of Growth among Children Who Have Coronary Events as Adults

Growth trajectories of 8760 people born in Helsinki from 1934 through 1944 are associated with outcome as adults.

Accompanying editorial has a nice review to other studies of similar spirit.

But how generalizable is this particular result? The Finland population is rather genetically homogeneous due to small founder population.

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