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Cardiorespiratory fitness, BMI, and risk of hypertension: the HYPGENE study.
Medicine and science in sports and exercise - 1 Oct 2007
Rankinen Tuomo, Church Timothy S, Rice Treva, Bouchard Claude, Blair Steven N
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INTRODUCTION: Cardiorespiratory fitness and regular physical activity are inversely associated with the risk of hypertension, and exercise training has been shown to lower elevated blood pressure (BP). Genetic factors contribute significantly to the interindividual differences in endurance training-induced changes in BP. However, similar data on the genotype-by-fitness interactions on the risk of hypertension are...
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