The heritability of diastolic blood pressure appears to decrease from young adulthood to middle age due to the increasing impact of individual environmental factors.
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May indicate rising environmental influence on diastolic BP with age; leaves open longitudinal confirmation of heritability dynamics.
Sims et al. (1986) studied this question.
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