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Blood pressure change and risk of hypertension associated with parental hypertension: the Johns Hopkins Precursors Study.
Archives of internal medicine - 24 Mar 2008
Wang Nae-Yuh, Young J Hunter, Meoni Lucy A, Ford Daniel E, Erlinger Thomas P, Klag Michael J
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BACKGROUND: Parental hypertension is used to classify hypertension risk in young adults, but the long-term association of parental hypertension with blood pressure (BP) change and risk of hypertension over the adult life span has not been well studied. METHODS: We examined the association of parental hypertension with BP change and hypertension risk from young adulthood through the ninth decade of life in a...
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