Article
Genetic epidemiology of essential hypertension.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Apr 1999
Gavras I, Manolis A, Gavras H
Abstract excerpt
This review article is intended to introduce the uninitiated clinician to the basic concepts, aims and early findings of the genetic epidemiology of hypertension. It separates the rare monogenic 'Mendelian' hypertensive disorders from the vast majority of patients with essential hypertension, which is a complex, polygenic, multifactorial disorder resulting from interaction of several genes with each other and...
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