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Obesity, hypertension and tobacco use associated with left ventricular remodelling and hypertrophy in South African Women: Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort
2022-03-14
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<h4>Background</h4> Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a known marker of increased risk in developing future life-threating CVD, though it is unclear how health risk factors, such as obesity, blood pressure and tobacco use, associate with left ventricular (LV) remodelling and LVH across generations of urban African populations. <h4>Methods</h4> Black female adults (n=123; age: 29-68 years) and their children (n...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86597029-0e3f-5570-b354-dd4dd30fd470
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.03.14.22272334
