Telomeres: The time factor in essential hypertension

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-35

  Aviv, Abraham ^a   Zahorodny, Walter ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TIME;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035256525     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-001-0075-x     Document Type: Article

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