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SUBMITTER: Liang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6355367 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liang Xiaohua X Su Shaoyong S Hao Guang G Snieder Harold H Treiber Frank F Kapuku Gaston G Wang Xiaoling X
Journal of hypertension 20190301 3
<h4>Objective</h4>Increased arterial stiffness measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been shown to be an important parameter of cardiovascular risk. Longitudinal development of PWV from youth to early adulthood and its possible sociodemographic, anthropometric, hemodynamic and behavioral moderators will be illustrated.<h4>Methods</h4>Individual growth curves of carotid-distal PWV across age were created for 559 African American and European American men and women with a maximum of five asses ...[more]