Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Estrogen Receptor Alpha Gene Polymorphisms and Arterial Stiffness in Older Humans

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 650-656

  Hayashi, Koichiro ^a,b   Maeda, Seiji ^b   Iemitsu, Motoyuki ^b   Otsuki, Takeshi ^b   Sugawara, Jun ^b   Tanabe, Takumi ^b   Miyauchi, Takashi ^b   Kuno, Shinya ^b   Ajisaka, Ryuichi ^b   Matsuda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a Junior College of Sapporo Otani University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

estrogen receptor alpha; pulse wave velocity; Sex difference; single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RIGIDITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34248647903     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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