Smoking significantly increases risk of aneurysm in people with certain genes

Friday, February 26, 2010 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

For people who carry common gene variants, cigarette smoking greatly increases the risk that a blood vessel in the brain will weaken and balloon out -- called an aneurysm -- which could be...

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