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Lower mortality in patients with the DD genotype of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene after acute myocardial infarction.
Acta cardiologica - 1 Dec 2001
Tokunaga S, Tsuji H, Nishiue T, Yamada K, Miyasaka Y, Saitou D, Iwasaka T
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism has been associated with different serum ACE concentrations and cardiac ACE activity. We assessed whether the ACE gene I/D polymorphism influenced cardiac mortality in Japanese patients with acute myocar...
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