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Interaction between the Haptoglobin 2 Phenotype and Diabetes Mellitus on Systolic Pulmonary Arterial Pressure and Nitric Oxide Bioavailability in Hemodialysis Patients.
Journal of diabetes research - 1 Jan 2015
Dahan Inbal, Farber Evgeny, Thauho Nadia, Nakhoul Nakhoul, Francis Adi, Awawde Mohamad, Levy Andrew P, Kim-Shapiro Daniel B, Basu Swati, Nakhoul Farid
Abstract excerpt
Elevated systolic pulmonary artery pressure (s-PAP, ≥35 mmHg) serves as an independent predictor of mortality in hemodialysis (HD) and diabetic (DM) patients. A polymorphism in the antioxidant Haptoglobin (Hp) gene has been shown to regulate the bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO), a major mediator of pulmonary vascular tone. We therefore set out to test the hypothesis that the Hp polymorphism may be a...
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