Carotid artery intima-media thickness, distensibility and elasticity: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11-12 years old and their parents.

Richard S LiuSophie DunnAnneke C Grobler Katherine Lange Denise BeckerGreta GoldsmithJohn B Carlin Markus Juonala Melissa Wake David P Burgner

Published in: BMJ open (2019)

We provide Australian values for carotid vascular measures and report a modest mother-child concordance. Both genetic and environmental exposures are likely to contribute to carotid IMT.

Keyphrases

mental health
air pollution
risk factors
optical coherence tomography
genome wide
copy number
cardiovascular risk factors
human health
gene expression
metabolic syndrome
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dna methylation
life cycle