Aggregate blood pressure responses to serial dietary sodium and potassium intervention: defining responses using independent component analysis
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- 作者：Gengsheng Chen ; Lisa de las Fuentes ; Chi C. Gu ; Jiang He ; Dongfeng Gu…
- 关键词：Blood pressure ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Hypertension ; Independent component analysis
- 刊名：BMC Genetics
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,292 KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Genetics and Population Dynamics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2156
文摘
Background Hypertension is a complex trait that often co-occurs with other conditions such as obesity and is affected by genetic and environmental factors. Aggregate indices such as principal components among these variables and their responses to environmental interventions may represent novel information that is potentially useful for genetic studies.