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Youth and young adults, including around 500 twin pairs with roughly equal numbers of African Americans and…
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Cohort
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Longitudinal twin cohort enables parsing of genetic and environmental drivers of youth cardiometabolic risk; leaves open causal roles of chronic stress pending outcomes.
The Georgia Cardiovascular Twin Study is a longitudinal cohort designed to investigate the genetic and environmental influences, particularly chronic stress, on the development of cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors in youth.
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