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Differential influence of family history of hypertension and premature myocardial infarction on systolic blood pressure and left ventricular mass trajectories in youth.
Pediatrics - 1 Jun 2003
Dekkers J Caroline, Treiber Frank A, Kapuku Gaston, Snieder Harold
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of genetic susceptibility to essential hypertension (EH) and the genetic susceptibility to premature myocardial infarction (MI) on longitudinal development of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and left ventricular mass (LVM) in youth. METHODS: Individual SBP and LVM growth curves across age were created for a sample of 745 subjects (age range: 4.9-27.5 years) and a sample of 687...
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