Genetics of human arterial hypertension.

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Arterial hypertension is one of the major cardiovascular risk factors in Western countries. Besides some well established, but rather rare forms of secondary hypertension, essential hypertension is the most common diagnosis. The hereditary nature of this disease has been well established in many familial studies. The quantitative contribution of genetic factors to blood pressure variance is estimated to be about...

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