Aortic stiffness is associated with visceral adiposity in older adults enrolled in the Study of Health, Aging, and Body Composition

Hypertension

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 429-433

  Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a   Newman, Anne ^a   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^a   Havlik, Richard ^a   Pahor, Marco ^a   Lakatta, Edward ^a   Spurgeon, Harold ^a   Vaitkevicius, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Central obesity; Insulin resistance; Pulse wave velocity; Vascular stiffness

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN;

AGED; AGING; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE WAVE; SMOKING; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 0035569873     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.38.3.429     Document Type: Article

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