The association between the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and arterial stiffness in young healthy subjects

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 510-512

  Shapiro, Y ^a   Boaz, M ^a   Matas, Z ^a   Fux, A ^a   Shargorodsky, M ^a,b,c  

^a Sackler School of Medicine

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; LIPID; RENIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM;

ADULT; ALDOSTERONE; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 40749160471     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03176.x     Document Type: Article

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