Familial aggregation and childhood blood pressure.

doi:10.1007/s11906-014-0509-x

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Familial aggregation and childhood blood pressure.

Current hypertension reports - 1 Jan 2015

Wang Xiaoling, Xu Xiaojing, Su Shaoyong, Snieder Harold

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There is growing concern about elevated blood pressure (BP) in children. The evidence for familial aggregation of childhood BP is substantial. Twin studies have shown that a large part of the familial aggregation of childhood BP is due to genes. The first part of this review provides the latest progress in gene finding for childhood BP, focusing on the combined effects of multiple loci identified from the...

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Blood Pressure
Child
Family
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genome-Wide Association Study
Global Health
Humans
Hypertension
Morbidity
Risk Factors

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PMID: 25432901
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-014-0509-x
PMCID: PMC4476022

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