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Power to identify a genetic predictor of antihypertensive drug response using different methods to measure blood pressure response.
Journal of translational medicine - 13 Mar 2012
Turner Stephen T, Schwartz Gary L, Chapman Arlene B, Beitelshees Amber L, Gums John G, Cooper-Dehoff Rhonda M, Boerwinkle Eric, Johnson Julie A, Bailey Kent R
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BACKGROUND: To determine whether office, home, ambulatory daytime and nighttime blood pressure (BP) responses to antihypertensive drug therapy measure the same signal and which method provides greatest power to identify genetic predictors of BP response. METHODS: We analyzed office, home, ambulatory daytime and nighttime BP responses in hypertensive adults randomized to atenolol (N = 242) or hydrochlorothiazide...
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