[Increasing menace of cardiovascular diseases in the era of obesity].

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Epidemiological reports show that about half of all adults suffer from hypertension, and the incidence of diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia and obesity is markedly increasing in Japan. Recent progress in gene determination has shown that lifestyle-related diseases, including hypertension, are multigenetic diseases. In particular, renin-angiotensin genes play an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension....

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