Rationale and design of the Leipzig (LIFE) Heart Study: phenotyping and cardiovascular characteristics of patients with coronary artery disease.

We established the Leipzig (LIFE) Heart Study, a biobank and database of patients with different stages of coronary artery disease (CAD) for studies of clinical, metabolic, cellular and genetic factors of cardiovascular diseases.The Leipzig (LIFE) Heart Study (NCT00497887) is an ongoing observationa...

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Main Authors: Frank Beutner, Daniel Teupser, Stephan Gielen, Lesca Miriam Holdt, Markus Scholz, Enno Boudriot, Gerhard Schuler, Joachim Thiery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3245257?pdf=render