Genetic influences on the increase in blood pressure with age in normotensive subjects in Barbados

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-63

  Robinson, Miguel T ^a   Fischel Ghodsian, Nathan ^b   Fraser, Henry S ^c   Nicholson, George D ^c   Grim, Carlene M ^d   Wilson, Dorothea M ^e   Wilson, Thomas W ^e   Grim, Clarence E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d Shared Cared Education and Research Consulting Inc   (United States)

^e Wilson Research LLC   (United States)

^f MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Gc; Haptoglobin; mt DNA

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; HAPTOGLOBIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VITAMIN D BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BARBADOS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 1342288110     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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