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Framingham Heart Study 100K Project: genome-wide associations for blood pressure and arterial stiffness

BACKGROUND: About one quarter of adults are hypertensive and high blood pressure carries increased risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and death. Increased arterial stiffness is a key factor in the pathogenesis of systolic hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Substantial heritability...

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Autores principales: Levy, Daniel, Larson, Martin G, Benjamin, Emelia J, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Wang, Thomas J, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Mitchell, Gary F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMC 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1995621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17903302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-8-S1-S3

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