Associations of Body Composition Measures and C2, a Marker for Small Artery Elasticity: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

OBJECTIVE: Lower C2, a continuous blood pressure waveform characteristic asserted to represent small artery elasticity, predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. We hypothesized that the paradoxical positive association between body mass index (BMI) and C2 may reflect muscle instead of ex...

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Autores principales: Forbang, Nketi I., Allison, Matthew A., Ix, Joachim H., Criqui, Michael H., Vaidya, Dhanajay, Yeboah, Joseph, Duprez, Daniel A., Jacobs, David R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26373903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21221

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26373903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21221

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