Association of body mass index with arterial stiffness and blood pressure components: A twin study

Abstract Rationale Obesity, blood pressure and arterial stiffness are heritable traits interconnected to each other but their possible common genetic and environmental etiologies are unknown. Methods We studied 228 monozygotic and 150 dizygotic twin pairs aged 18–82 years from Italy, Hungary and the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Atherosclerosis 2013-08, Vol.229 (2), p.388-395
Hauptverfasser:	Tarnoki, Adam Domonkos, Tarnoki, David Laszlo, Bogl, Leonie H, Medda, Emanuela, Fagnani, Corrado, Nisticò, Lorenza, Stazi, Maria Antonietta, Brescianini, Sonia, Lucatelli, Pierleone, Boatta, Emanuele, Zini, Chiara, Fanelli, Fabrizio, Baracchini, Claudio, Meneghetti, Giorgio, Osztovits, Janos, Jermendy, Gyorgy, Kiss, Robert Gabor, Preda, Istvan, Karlinger, Kinga, Lannert, Agnes, Molnar, Andrea Agnes, Littvay, Levente, Garami, Zsolt, Berczi, Viktor, Pucci, Giacomo, Baffy, Gyorgy, Schillaci, Giuseppe, Pietiläinen, Kirsi H
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over atherosclerosis Augmentation index Blood Flow Velocity - genetics Blood Pressure - genetics Body Mass Index Cardiovascular Central blood pressure diastolic blood pressure genetic traits heritability Humans Hypertension Hypertension - epidemiology Hypertension - genetics Middle Aged Obesity Obesity - epidemiology Obesity - genetics Phenotype phenotypic correlation Prevalence Pulsatile Flow - genetics Pulse wave velocity Risk Factors systolic blood pressure Twin study Twins, Dizygotic - genetics Twins, Dizygotic - statistics & numerical data Twins, Monozygotic - genetics Twins, Monozygotic - statistics & numerical data Vascular Stiffness - genetics Young Adult
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