Decreased Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in Individuals with Severe Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency (PiZZ) in Comparison with the General Population.

Hanan TanashMagnus Per EkströmNawfal BasilEva RönmarkAnne LindbergEeva Piitulainen

Published in: International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)

PiZZ individuals have a lower risk of developing incident ischemic heart disease than the control subjects with known smoking habits, who had been randomly selected from population-based cohorts.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular disease
smoking cessation
early onset
replacement therapy