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[Genetic polymorphisms of the renin-angiotensin system and essential hypertension].
Medicina clinica - 1 May 1999
Fernández-Llama P, Poch E, Oriola J, Botey A, de la Sierra A, Revert L, Rivera F, Darnell A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays an important role in blood pressure (BP) regulation. A number of RAS polymorphisms have been linked to essential hypertension (EH), but there is uncertainty about this association in other studies. We examined whether the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene, and the M235T and T174M polymorphisms of the...
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