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"Vascular age" is advanced in children with atherosclerosis-promoting risk factors.
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging - 1 Jan 2010
Le Joseph, Zhang Danna, Menees Spencer, Chen Jie, Raghuveer Geetha
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BACKGROUND: Obesity and familial dyslipidemia in children are associated with accelerated atherosclerosis by pathological examination. We sought to determine whether these children had increased carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT), a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis similar to 45-y...
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