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Cardiovascular risk factors, angiotensin-converting enzyme gene I/D polymorphism, and left ventricular mass in systemic hypertension.
The American journal of cardiology - 15 Apr 1999
Celentano A, Mancini F P, Crivaro M, Palmieri V, Ferrara L A, De Stefano V, Di Minno G, de Simone G
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We investigated the influence of major cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus) on the association between angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion (I)/deletion (D) polymorphism and echocardiographic left ventricular mass in 225 patients with sustained hypertension, assessed by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. When the study population was analyzed as a whole,...
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