Impact of gender and menopausal status on relationships between biological aging, as indexed by telomere length, and aortic stiffness

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 623-630

  Raymond, Andrew R ^a   Norton, Gavin R ^a   Woodiwiss, Angela J ^a   Brooksbank, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aortic stiffness; Blood pressure; Gender; Hypertension; Pulse wave velocity; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGING; APPLANATION TONOMETER; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE LENGTH; TONOMETRY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; GENETICS; HYPERTENSION; MENOPAUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENOPAUSE; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84941570146     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajh/hpu212     Document Type: Article

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