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Usefulness of the I/D angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype for detecting the risk of left ventricular hypertrophy in pharmacologically treated hypertensive men.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 May 2000
López-Contreras J, Blanco-Vaca F, Borrás X, Carreras F, Pons-Lladó G, Gallego F, Solé M J, Cirera S, Benet M T, Negredo E, Roca-Cusachs A
Abstract excerpt
The insertion/deletion polymorphism (I/D) of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene has been associated in some studies with a higher prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), but few of them were performed on pharmacologically treated hypertensive patients. The present study was undertaken to determine whether ACE genotype determination could help in the identification of pharmacologically treated...
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