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Familial clustering of hypertensive target organ damage in the community.
Journal of hypertension - 1 May 2018
Niiranen Teemu J, Lin Honghuang, Larson Martin G, Vasan Ramachandran S
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OBJECTIVES: Prior studies suggest that hypertensive target organ damage (TOD) is a heritable trait. However, the risk that parental TOD confers on propensity for TOD in their offspring, and how hypertensive TOD clusters in the context of parental versus offspring hypertension status remain unclear. METHODS: We studied 3238 Framingham Heart Study participants (mean age 39 ± 8 years, 53% women) with available...
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