Heritability of daytime ambulatory blood pressure in an extended twin design

Hypertension

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-85

  Kupper, Nina ^a   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a   Riese, Harriëtte ^b   Posthuma, Daniëlle ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antihypertensive agents; Blood pressure monitoring; Genetics; Hypertension, genetic; Twins

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TWINS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SIBLINGS; SYSTOLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 11244321599     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000149952.84391.54     Document Type: Article

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