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Association of Parental Hypertension With Arterial Stiffness in Nonhypertensive Offspring: The Framingham Heart Study.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Sept 2016
Andersson Charlotte, Quiroz Rene, Enserro Danielle, Larson Martin G, Hamburg Naomi M, Vita Joseph A, Levy Daniel, Benjamin Emelia J, Mitchell Gary F, Vasan Ramachandran S
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High arterial stiffness seems to be causally involved in the pathogenesis of hypertension. We tested the hypothesis that offspring of parents with hypertension may display higher arterial stiffness before clinically manifest hypertension, given that hypertension is a heritable condition. We compared arterial tonometry measures in a sample of 1564 nonhypertensive Framingham Heart Study third-generation cohort...
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