Yang Wang, Jie Wang, Xiao-Wei Zheng, Ming-Fei Du, Xi Zhang, Chao Chu, Dan Wang, Yue-Yuan Liao, Qiong Ma, Hao Jia, Gui-Lin Hu, Yu Yan, Yue Sun, Chen Chen, Xiao-Yu Zhang, Hao Li, Ting Zou, Ze-Jiaxin Niu, Zi-Yue Man, Lan Wang, Wen-Jing Luo, Guan-Ji Wu, Yu-Ming Kang, John Chang, Christian Delles, Yao Lu, Jian-Jun Mu
BACKGROUND: Vascular aging, as assessed by structural and functional arterial properties, is an independent predictor of cardiovascular outcomes. We aimed to explore the associations of individual cardiovascular risk factors from childhood to midlife and their accumulation over a 30-year span with vascular aging in midlife. METHODS: Using data from the ongoing cohort of Hanzhong Adolescent Hypertension study, 2180 participants aged 6 to 18 years at baseline were followed for over 30 years...
March 7, 2023: Hypertension