[Molecular genetics of essential hypertension. Susceptibility and resistance genes].

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Essential Hypertension (EH) is a multifactorial and polygenic syndrome with a high impact in public health. Recently, rare mendelian forms of hypertension such as glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism (GRA), apparent mineralocorticoid excess (AME) and Liddle Syndrome caused by single gene mutations have been identified in which the mechanism is an increased sodium retention. Therefore, it is tempting to...

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