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Genetic predictors of glucocorticoid-induced hypertension in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Jun 2008
Kamdem Landry K, Hamilton Leo, Cheng Cheng, Liu Wei, Yang Wenjian, Johnson Julie A, Pui Ching-Hon, Relling Mary V
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OBJECTIVE: Glucocorticoids are used universally in the remission induction therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). One of the adverse effects of glucocorticoids is hypertension. Our aim was to define the frequency of and clinical and genetic risk factors for steroid-induced hypertension. METHODS: We determined the genotypes for 203 candidate polymorphisms in genes previously linked to hypertension or to...
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