Does telomere length affect blood pressure?

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-272

  Aydos, Sena Erdogan ^a,b   Tükün, Ajlan ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MESA 2 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CELL AGING; CHROMOSOME; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LEUKOCYTE; MAMMAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PULSE PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TELOMERE;

EID: 34250852251     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02849894     Document Type: Article

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