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Associations of Variants in the CACNA1A and CACNA1C Genes With Longitudinal Blood Pressure Changes and Hypertension Incidence: The GenSalt Study.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Nov 2016
Hu Zunsong, Liu Fangchao, Li Mengting, He Jiang, Huang Jianfeng, Rao Dabeeru C, Hixson James E, Gu Charles, Kelly Tanika N, Chen Shufeng, Gu Dongfeng, Yang Xueli
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine the associations of voltage-dependent calcium-channel genes CACNA1A and CACNA1C with blood pressure (BP) changes and hypertension incidence in a longitudinal family study. METHODS: A total of 1,768 Han Chinese participants from the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt Sensitivity (GenSalt) follow-up study were eligible for the current study. Nine BP measurements were obtained at...
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