Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Mass
Article 2009 en
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Ramachandran S. Vasan
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Serkalem Demissie
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Masayuki Kimura
Abstract
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In contrast to our expectation, in the present community-based sample, LTL was positively associated with LV mass and wall thickness, especially so in participants with hypertension. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that longer LTL may be a marker of propensity to LV hypertrophy.
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