Seventy years after the siege of Leningrad: Does early life famine still affect cardiovascular risk and aging?

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1772-1779

  Rotar, Oxana ^a,b   Moguchaia, Ekaterina ^a   Boyarinova, Maria ^a   Kolesova, Ekaterina ^a   Khromova, Natalia ^a   Freylikhman, Olga ^a   Smolina, Natalia ^a   Solntsev, Vladislav ^a   Kostareva, Anna ^a,b   Konradi, Alexandra ^a,b   Shlyakhto, Evgeny ^a  

^a ALMAZOV NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Cardiovascular aging; Famine; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DNA; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERTENSION; LIFE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SURVIVOR; TARGET ORGAN; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TONOMETER; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COMPLICATION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STARVATION; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; STARVATION; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84942693213     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: 14735598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000000640     Document Type: Article

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