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Antihypertensive treatments obscure familial contributions to blood pressure variation.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Feb 2003
Cui Jisheng S, Hopper John L, Harrap Stephen B
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The linkage and association between inherent blood pressure and underlying genotype is potentially confounded by antihypertensive treatment. We estimated blood pressure variance components (genetic, shared environmental, individual-specific) in 767 adult volunteer families by using a variety of approaches to adjusting blood pressure of the 244 subjects (8.2%) receiving antihypertensive medications. The additive...
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