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Assessment of the interaction of heritability of volume load and left ventricular mass: the HyperGEN offspring study.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jul 2007
de Simone Giovanni, Tang Weihong, Devereux Richard B, Hunt Steven C, Kitzman Dalane W, Rao D C, Arnett Donna K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular mass (LVM) is more closely associated with volume load than pressure load. We assessed whether part of the genetic heritability of LVM can be explained by stroke volume (SV) inheritance. METHODS: Echocardiographic LVM, SV and peripheral resistance were measured in 527 families with at least two relatives from the HyperGEN study (51% African-American, 43% men, 44% obese, 53%...
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