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V Patel1, C Champ, P S Andrews, B E Gostelow, N P Gunasekara, A R Davidson.
Abstract
The association between the grade of earlobe creases and degree of atheromatous disease was investigated in 376 postmortem examinations. Each earlobe crease was individually graded from 0 to 3. The risk of atherosclerosis as a cause of death was nearly doubled in men with grade 3 creases in both earlobes, and more than trebled in women with bilateral high-grade creases. The risk of death from myocardial infarction was 2.50 in men with high-grade creases and 3.70 in women. The earlobe crease is an important sign of atheromatous disease and it may be useful to include it in the clinical examination of patients.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1404022 PMCID： PMC5375484
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Coll Physicians Lond ISSN： 0035-8819