Heritability of arterial stiffness and central blood pressure: The Holy Grail for detecting patients at high cardiovascular risk?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1511-1513

  Laurent, Stéphane ^a,b,c   Parati, Gianfranco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTRAL BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXERCISE; GENETICS; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SALT INTAKE;

EID: 84863824466     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: 14735598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e328356a250     Document Type: Note

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