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Heritability and a Genome-Wide Linkage Scan for Arterial Stiffness, Wave Reflection, and Mean Arterial Pressure
Author(s) -
Gary F. Mitchell,
Anita L. DeStefano,
Martin G. Larson,
Emelia J. Benjamin,
MingHuei Chen,
Ramachandran S. Vasan,
Joseph A. Vita,
Daniel Levy
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.104.530675
Subject(s) - arterial stiffness , medicine , heritability , blood pressure , linkage (software) , cardiology , pulse wave velocity , genetics , gene , biology
Arterial stiffness and mean arterial pressure variably contribute to systolic hypertension and increased cardiovascular risk. However, few prior community-based studies have evaluated the genetics of arterial stiffness and separate mean and pulsatile components of blood pressure.

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