Relationship of predominantly mild current smoking to out-of-office blood pressure in a community sample in Africa.

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OBJECTIVES: As the impact of mild smoking on blood pressure (BP) is uncertain, we assessed the relationship between predominantly mild current smoking and out-of-office BP and the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) genotype on this relationship in a community sample of black African ancestry. METHODS: In 689 participants randomly recruited from an urban, developing community of black African descent,...

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