Plasma homocysteine is associated with aortic arterial stiffness but not wave reflection in Chinese hypertensive subjects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Xiao, Wenkai ^a   Bai, Yongyi ^a   Ye, Ping ^a   Luo, Leiming ^a   Liu, Dejun ^a   Wu, Hongmei ^a   Bai, Jie ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HOMOCYSTEINE; LIPID;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AORTA; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CAROTID ARTERY; CHINESE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PULSE WAVE; REFLECTED PRESSURE WAVE; TONOMETRY; WAVE REFLECTION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84899964691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085938     Document Type: Article

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