Heritability of Arterial Stiffness in Black and White American Youth and Young Adults
Open Access
- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Hypertension
- Vol. 20 (10) , 1065-1072
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2007.05.013
Abstract
Background:. Our objectives were to examine the heritability of arterial stiffness measured as pulse-wave velocity (PWV), and its dependence on ethniciKeywords
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