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Adiposity, Obesity, and Arterial Aging: Longitudinal Study of Aortic Stiffness in the Whitehall II Cohort
We sought to determine whether adiposity in later midlife is an independent predictor of accelerated stiffening of the aorta. Whitehall II study participants (3789 men; 1383 women) underwent carotid-femoral applanation tonometry at the mean age of 66 and again 4 years later. General adiposity by bod...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4490910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26056335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.05494 |