Harold Snieder
Harold Snieder
african blood candidate chronic depend develop difficult effects environmental european exposure followed gender genes genetic group high people pressure research shows stress youth
It has been difficult to show effects of stress on the development of hypertension because it may be that only a subset of people who show a genetic susceptibility will develop high blood pressure after chronic exposure to stress. Our research shows that effects of different candidate genes on the development of high blood pressure during adolescence depend on the environmental stressors that are present, the gender and the ethnicity, in a group of European American and African American youth that have been followed for 15 years.
adulthood age-and-aging children great hormones period raging stability
We know this is a period of great change, between 14 and 18 years of age, as children are growing, hormones are raging and the stability of adulthood has not yet been reached.