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Does angiotensin-converting enzyme-1 (ACE-1) gene polymorphism lead to chronic kidney disease among hypertensive patients?
Renal failure - 1 Jun 2016
Sarkar Taposh, Singh Narinder Pal, Kar Premashish, Husain Syed Akhtar, Kapoor Seema, Pollipalli Sunil Kumar, Kumar Anish, Garg Neena
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BACKGROUND: Hypertension is one of the important contributing factors linked with both causation and development of kidney disease. It is a multifactorial, polygenic, and complex disorder due to interaction of several risk genes with environmental factors. The present study was aimed to explore genetic polymorphism in ACE-1 gene as a risk factor for CKD among hypertensive patients. METHODS: Three hundred patients...
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