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High blood pressure in pregnancy, DNA methylation, and later blood pressure in African American women enrolled in the InterGEN Study.
Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) - 1 Sept 2020
Barcelona Veronica, Wang Zeyuan, Crusto Cindy, Hui Qin, Sun Yan V, Taylor Jacquelyn Y
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BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the effects of high blood pressure (BP) in pregnancy, preeclampsia, or eclampsia on later BP, and the epigenetics of this phenomenon is similarly poorly understood, especially among African Americans. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between high BP in pregnancy, epigenomics, and later BP in African American women in the InterGEN Study (n = 250)....
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