From information on all common CRP haplotypes in populations of European descent, the risk ratio was 1.00 (0.89 to 1.12; 152 678 participants, 33 589 cases, 39 studies; fig 4) (see also fig K in appendix 3 on bmj.com).
Men of European descent have intermediate risk and men of Asian descent have very low risk.
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A genetic disorder called hemochromatosis, which affects 1 in 250 people of northern European descent, ups the risk of iron overload, because it causes iron to be easily absorbed.
Respondents of Moroccan descent thought the risk to be less (mean=3.60, SD=0.87) than respondents of Turkish descent (mean=4.06, SD=1.02, P=0.002).
"We know that incomplete testicular descent is a risk factor for poorer semen quality, lower sperm counts, [impaired fertility], and testicular cancer," says Swan.
In the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), Americans of European, African, Hispanic, and Chinese descent demonstrated equivalent risk for CVD events based on level of CP (12).
Studies done in developed world have shown that people of African descent had increased risk of developing glaucoma, and primary open angle glaucoma is significantly more common, develops earlier, and is more severe in blacks than whites.
On the basis of estimates from population-based studies of women aged 40 years or younger to estimates from high-incidence breast cancer families of Northern European descent, the cumulative risk of breast cancer by age 70 years for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers is between 40 and 80% [ 18, 19, 20].
This minority viewpoint is little heard in America these days, and a voice of caution and restraint may be valuable in a polity so indignant that at times it risks descent into vengefulness and jingoism.
While it has been reported that persons of African descent are at reduced risk of DHF, clearly, as reported here, the population is still at risk of severe dengue and potentially death.
