Heritability of Arterial Stiffness in Black and White American Youth and Young Adults

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1065-1072

  Ge, Dongliang ^a   Young, Thomas W ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^a   Kapuku, Gaston K ^a   Treiber, Frank A ^a   Snieder, Harold ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; ethnicity; heritability; twins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; ELASTICITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 34548849777     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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