Early life factors and their relevance to intima-media thickness of the common carotid artery in early adulthood.

BACKGROUND:Early life factors may predispose an offspring to cardiovascular disease in later life; relevance of these associations may extend to ‟healthy" people in Western populations. We examined the prospective associations between early life factors and adult carotid intima-media thickness...

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Main Authors: Juliana Nyasordzi, Katharina Penczynski, Thomas Remer, Anette E Buyken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233227