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Exercise training-induced blood pressure and plasma lipid improvements in hypertensives may be genotype dependent.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Jul 1999
Hagberg J M, Ferrell R E, Dengel D R, Wilund K R
Abstract excerpt
Exercise training improves cardiovascular disease risk, but individual responses are highly variable. We hypothesized that common polymorphic gene variations would affect these responses. Sedentary obese hypertensive older men who had undergone exercise training were typed at the apolipoprotein (apo) E, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) loci. Individuals of all genotype subgroups...
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