Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Mass

Ramachandran S. Vasan, Serkalem Demissie, Masayuki Kimura, L. Adrienne Cupples, Charles C. White, Jeffrey P. Gardner, Xiaogian Cao, Daniel Levy, Emelia J. Benjamin, Abraham Aviv

Circulation · 2009 · 70 citations · 52 references

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Abstract

In contrast to our expectation, in the present community-based sample, LTL was positively associated with LV mass and wall thickness, especially so in participants with hypertension. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that longer LTL may be a marker of propensity to LV hypertrophy.

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