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Increased vascular tone due to sympathovagal imbalance in normotensive and prehypertensive offspring of hypertensive parents.
International angiology : a journal of the International Union of Angiology - 1 Aug 2012
Pal G K, Pal P, Lalitha V, Amudharaj D, Nanda N, Dutta T K, Adithan C
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AIM: Prehypertension has recently been observed as a potent cardiovascular risk factor. Though prehypertension has a strong familial predisposition, the pathophysiological mechanisms that cause its progression to prehypertension in normotensive sibling of hypertensive parents have not yet been fully elucidated. Therefore, the present study was conducted in normotensive and prehypertensive sibling by spectral...
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