A genetic variant on chromosome 9p21 and incident heart failure in the ARIC study

Recent studies showed that polymorphisms on chromosome 9p21 are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD), but few studies examined the association with heart failure (HF), stroke, or other subclinical atherosclerotic diseases. We tested the association of chromosome 9p21 polymorphisms with non-coronary atherosclerotic diseases. We studied 4018 African-American and 11 085 white participants from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study,...