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Sex-specific effects of ACE I/D and AGT-M235T on pulse pressure: the HyperGEN Study.
Human genetics - 1 Aug 2007
Lynch Amy I, Arnett Donna K, Pankow James S, Miller Michael B, North Kari E, Eckfeldt John H, Hunt Steven C, Rao Dabeeru C, Djoussé Luc
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Evidence shows that an elevated pulse pressure (PP) may lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There is also evidence that PP is a sexually dimorphic trait, and that genetic factors influence inter-individual variation in PP. The aim of this project was to assess the genotype-by-sex interaction on PP in a sample of mostly hypertensive African American and White participants using...
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