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[Genetic predisposition to development of atrial fibrillation in patients with hypertensive disease].
Kardiologiia - 1 Jan 2010
Gorshkova E S, Minushkina L O, Brovkin A N, Brazhnik V A, Nosikov V V, Zateĭshchikov D A
Abstract excerpt
We studied associations of genes of adrenoreceptor types 1, 2 and 3 (ADRB1, ADRB2, ADRB3), connexin (CX40) and voltage gated potassium channel type 2 (KCNH2) with development of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with hypertensive disease. We examined 102 patients with hypertensive disease which in 51 was complicated with AF. The groups were comparable by sex, age, Ketle index, presence of concomitant diseases....
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