Genetics of human hypertension.

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BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a multifactorial disease involving interactions among genetic, environmental, demographic, vascular and neuroendocrine factors. Essential hypertension is the most frequent diagnosis in this syndrome, indicating that a monocausal etiology has not been identified. However, a number of risk factors underlying essential hypertension have also been identified including age, sex, genetics,...

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