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Clock Genes Explain a Large Proportion of Phenotypic Variance in Systolic Blood Pressure and This Control Is Not Modified by Environmental Temperature.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Jan 2016
Dashti Hassan S, Aslibekyan Stella, Scheer Frank A J L, Smith Caren E, Lamon-Fava Stefania, Jacques Paul, Lai Chao-Qiang, Tucker Katherine L, Arnett Donna K, Ordovás José M
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BACKGROUND: Diurnal variation in blood pressure (BP) is regulated, in part, by an endogenous circadian clock; however, few human studies have identified associations between clock genes and BP. Accounting for environmental temperature may be necessary to correct for seasonal bias. METHODS: We examined whether environmental temperature on the day of participants' assessment was associated with BP, using adjusted...
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