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Arterial Stiffness, Genetic Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Diabetes care - 1 Apr 2022
Wang Mengying, Huang Jie, Wu Tao, Qi Lu
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OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate prospective associations of pulse wave arterial stiffness index (ASI) and pulse pressure (PP) with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and assess the modifying effect of genetics. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We included 152,611 participants free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the UK Biobank. All participants had ASI and blood pressure measurements collected at baseline visit. In...
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