Weili Yan
Georgia Regents University
9 Papers
101 Citations
Weili Yan is an academic researcher from Georgia Regents University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ambulatory blood pressure & Waist. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 9 publications. Previous affiliations of Weili Yan include Xinjiang Medical University.
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Papers
Cardiovascular characteristics in American youth with prehypertension
Haidong Zhu,Weili Yan,Dongliang Ge,Frank A. Treiber,Gregory A. Harshfield,Gaston Kapuku,Harold Snieder,Yanbin Dong +7 more
TL;DR: Prehypertensive subjects were more likely to have a positive family history of essential hypertension, especially in blacks, and cardiovascular characteristics of prehypertension appear to be race-dependent.
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Relationships of Cardiovascular Phenotypes With Healthy Weight, at Risk of Overweight, and Overweight in US Youths
Haidong Zhu,Weili Yan,Dongliang Ge,Frank A. Treiber,Gregory A. Harshfield,Gaston Kapuku,Harold Snieder,Yanbin Dong +7 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that the status of at risk of overweight already has clinical implications in youths, and youths atrisk of overweight, compared with healthy-weight youths, seem to have increased cardiovascular risks.
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Waist Circumference Cutoff Points in School-aged Chinese Han and Uygur Children
Weili Yan,Hua Yao,Jianghong Dai,Jun Cui,Yan Chen,Xiaoyan Yang,Gregory A. Harshfield,Xiaoling Wang +7 more
TL;DR: To examine the distribution of age‐ and gender‐specific waist circumference and to identify optimal cutoffs for predicting cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese Han and Uygur children, a large number of children have a low waist circumference.
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Prostasin: A possible candidate gene for human hypertension
Haidong Zhu,Dehuang Guo,Ke Li,Weili Yan,Yuande Tan,Xiaoling Wang,Frank A. Treiber,Julie Chao,Harold Snieder,Harold Snieder,Yanbin Dong +10 more
TL;DR: Genetic variation of the prostasin gene may be implicated in the development of hypertension in youths and analyses combining AAs and EAs consistently demonstrated a statistical significance of rs12597511 on all the phenotypes including SBP/DBP and PWV.
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Waist-to-Height Ratio and BMI Predict Different Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chinese Children
Weili Yan,Xiaoling Wang,Hua Yao,Jianghong Dai,Yujian Zheng,Xiaoyan Yang,Xiaokaiti Yibulayin,Jun Cui +7 more
TL;DR: In the present study, the association of nine cardiovascular risk factors with BMI, waist circumference (WC), and WHR in Chinese children is compared for the first time.
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