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Do the ethanol metabolizing enzymes modify the relationship between alcohol consumption and blood pressure?
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jun 2003
Saito Kyoko, Yokoyama Tetsuji, Yoshiike Nobuo, Date Chigusa, Yamamoto Akio, Muramatsu Masaaki, Tanaka Heizo
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BACKGROUND: Several cross-sectional studies have examined whether the relationship between alcohol consumption and blood pressure (alcohol-BP relationship) differs among individuals with different aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) genotypes, but few studies have examined the association with alcoh...
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