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Do age, body mass index, and blood pressure have an additive influence on carotid intima-media thickness in normotensive and hypertensive patients?
Do age, body mass index, and blood pressure have an additive influence on carotid intima-media thickness in normotensive and hypertensive patients?
Age and body mass index have an additive influence on carotid intima-media thickness in normotensive individuals, whereas in hypertensive patients, the influence of blood pressure predominates.
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Age/BMI additively influence IMT in normotensives while BP predominates in hypertensives; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Honzíková et al. (2006) studied this question.
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