aDepartment for Nephrology, Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Croatia
bDanish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus and Copenhagen, Denmark
cDepartment for Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute
dDepartment of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center
eDepartment for Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
fDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
Correspondence to Mario Laganović, MD, PhD, Department for Nephrology, Arterial Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Kišpaićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Tel: +385 23 88 271; fax: +385 1 23 67 468; e-mail: [email protected]
Abbreviations: ABPM, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; AGA, appropriate for gestational age; BP, blood pressure; BSA, body surface area; cIMT, carotid intima–media thickness; IUGR, intrauterine growth restriction; Log-T/S ratio, log-transformed telomere length presented as T/S ratio; LTL, leukocyte telomere length; SGA, small for gestational age
Received 23 October, 2013
Revised 20 March, 2014
Accepted 20 March, 2014