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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bourgeois B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815765 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Medicine 20171201 50
The mechanisms linking short stature with an increase in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease risk remain elusive. This study tested the hypothesis that significant associations are present between height and blood pressure in a representative sample of the US adult population.Participants were 12,988 men and women from a multiethnic sample (age ≥ 18 years) evaluated in the 1999 to 2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who were not taking antihypertensive medications and wh ...[more]