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Lifetime Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity in Adulthood

Heikki Aatola, Teemu Koivistoinen, Nina Hutri‐Kähönen, Markus Juonala, Vera Mikkilä, Terho Lehtimäki, Jorma Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari, Mika Kähönen

Circulation · 2010 · 110 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

These findings suggest that lifetime lifestyle risk factors, with low consumption of fruits and vegetables in particular, are related to arterial stiffness in young adulthood.

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