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Terho Lehtimäki

Researcher at University of Tampere

Publications -  1375
Citations -  129159

Terho Lehtimäki is an academic researcher from University of Tampere. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 142, co-authored 1304 publications receiving 106981 citations. Previous affiliations of Terho Lehtimäki include Boston University & National Institutes of Health.

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Effect of long-term hormone replacement therapy on atherosclerosis progression in postmenopausal women relates to functional apolipoprotein e genotype.

TL;DR: The effects of HRT on atherosclerosis progression in subjects with no apo epsilon4-allele seems to be especially beneficial, compared with controls with same phenotype status but without HRT.

Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney

Louise V. Wain, +245 more
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Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 210 loci underlying cardiac conduction

Ioanna Ntalla, +221 more
- 24 Jul 2019 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease risk, including distal conduction disease, AF, atrioventricular pre-excitation, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, and coronary heart disease.

Polymorphism in the C-reactive protein (CRP) gene affects CRP levels in plasma and one early marker of atherosclerosis in men: The Health 2000 Survey

TL;DR: CRP gene allelic variation is associated with CRP levels in both sexes and with one CAE parameter (SI) in men in a population-based Finnish cohort of middle-aged subjects.