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Diuretic-gene interaction and the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Oct 2007
Schelleman H, Klungel O H, Witteman J C M, Breteler M M B, Hofman A, van Duijn C M, de Boer A, Stricker B H Ch
Abstract excerpt
This study investigates whether the interaction between diuretics and alpha-adducin (ADD1) G460W or G-protein beta3-subunit (GNB3) rs2301339 polymorphism modifies the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke. Data were used from the Rotterdam Study. The drug-gene interaction was determined with a Cox proportional hazard model with adjustment for each drug class as time-dependent covariates. The risk of MI in...
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