Genetic heritability and common environmental components of resting and stressed blood pressures, lipids, and body mass index in utah pedigrees and twins

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 625-638

  Hunt, Steven C ^a   Hasstedt, Sandra J ^a   Kuida, Hiroshi ^a   Stults, Barry M ^a   Hopkins, Paul N ^a   Williams, Roger R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Body height; Body weight; Environment; Genetics; Lipids; Twins

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; GENETICS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TWINS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPIDS; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRIGLYCERIDES; TWINS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; UTAH;

EID: 0024556170     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115175     Document Type: Article

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