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Analysis of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system gene polymorphisms in resistant hypertension.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Mar 2007
Freitas S R S, Cabello P H, Moura-Neto R S, Dolinsky L C, Lima A B, Barros M, Bittencourt I, Cordovil I L
Abstract excerpt
Essential hypertension is a disease multifactorially triggered by genetic and environmental factors. The contribution of genetic polymorphisms of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and clinical risk factors to the development of resistant hypertension was evaluated in 90 hypertensive patients and in 115 normotensive controls living in Southwestern Brazil. Genotyping for insertion/deletion of...
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