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Association of common polymorphisms in β1-adrenergic receptor with antihypertensive response to carvedilol.
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology - 1 Oct 2014
Si Dayong, Wang Juan, Xu Ying, Chen Xiaoshuai, Zhang Mingqiu, Zhou Hui
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Marked interpatient variability exists in the blood pressure response to carvedilol, a nonselective β-blocker. Here we evaluated the influence of 4 common polymorphisms in genes of the β-adrenergic receptor on the antihypertensive efficacy of carvedilol in patients in a double-blinded monotherapy study. METHODS: Eighty-seven subjects with uncomplicated essential hypertensive (49% men; age = 52.2 ±...
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