Article
Acetylation phenotype in hypertensive patients.
Gaoxiong yi xue ke xue za zhi = The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences - 1 Jan 1992
Huang C Y, Chu J Y, Yen T C
Abstract excerpt
Individual differences in drug-metabolizing capacity may be due to the occurrence of genetic enzyme variants. This study of pharmacogenetics in this paper explores the polymorphic acetylation of hypertensive patients who had taken hydralazine as an antihypertensive drug in the cardiovascular clinic at Chinese Air Force General Hospital. An apparent bimodal distribution of acetylator phenotype was found in 96...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Sulfamethazine