African-American ethnicity and cardiovascular risk factors are related to aortic pulse-wave velocity progression

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 809-815

  Birru, Mehret S ^a   Matthews, Karen A ^a   Thurston, Rebecca C ^a   Brooks, Maria M ^a   Ibrahim, Said ^b   Barinas Mitchell, Emma ^a   Janssen, Imke ^c   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; arteriosclerosis; atherosclerosis; blood pressure; ethnicity; hypertension; pulse wave velocity; risk factors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGING; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELASTICITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79959362335     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2011.57     Document Type: Article

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