Is there an association between angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism and functional activation of monocytes and macrophage in young patients with essential hypertension?

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BACKGROUND: This study was undertaken to determine whether the phenotype of monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages is more proatherogenic in young persons with arterial hypertension and whether this phenotype is affected by smoking or polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene. METHODS: We enrolled 40 young patients (24.1 +/- 4.7 years) with previously untreated arterial hypertension and 40...

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