Polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and angiotesinogen (AGT) genes and their associations with blood pressure and carotid artery intima media thickness among healthy Finnish young adults-the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 316-322

  Islam, Md Shaheenul ^a   Lehtimäki, Terho ^a   Juonala, Markus ^c   Kähönen, Mika ^a   Hutri Kähönen, Nina ^a   Kainulainen, Katariina ^d   Miettinen, Helena ^d   Taittonen, Leena ^e   Kontula, Kimmo ^d   Viikari, Jorma S A ^b   Raitakari, Olli T ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e VAASA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme; Angiotensinogen; Blood pressure; Intima media thickness; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINOGEN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; APOLIPOPROTEINS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 33748207818     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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