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Association of genetic variants of pentraxin 3 rs3816527 with hypertension in Chronic kidney disease patients.
Molecular and cellular biochemistry - 1 Jan 2017
Badr Eman A E, Hamoda Ghada E, Tayel Safaa I, Elshayeb Elsayed I
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is a nearly constant feature and both a cause and a consequence of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Atherosclerotic lesions showed a marked expression of pentraxin 3 on the surface of lumen and in the plaque. The aim was to assess the correlation of exon 2 of pentraxin 3 gene SNP rs3816527 with hypertension with CKD. The study was conducted on 110 CKD patients (60 patients with and 50 patients without...
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