Question: is this a 2) strong advice, 1) weak advice 0) no advice?

Though insulin resistance and increased BP may have some contribution to increased PWV in our HGPS cohort, as they do in nonHGPS patients with diabetes and hypertension29–31, only chronologic aging is independently associated with the degree of PWV elevations that we detect in HGPS. 
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This is no advice
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