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Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and peripheral arterial disease in diabetic patients.
Experimental diabetes research - 1 Jan 2012
Tseng Chin-Hsiao, Tseng Farn-Hsuan, Chong Choon-Khim, Tseng Ching-Ping, Cheng Ju-Chien
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the effect of traditional risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia and smoking) on the association between angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in 945 (454 men and 491 women) Taiwanese type 2 diabetic patients with a mean age of 63.5 (SD: 11.4) years. Among them, 81 (31 men and 50 women) had PAD (ankle-brachial index...
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