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Genetic Variants of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products in Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Hypertensive Patients.
Scientific reports - 8 Dec 2017
Yang Hualing, Nie Yangyang, Chen Zhenyi, Ye Linyang, Wang Qingxiang, Wang Zhanxiang
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus is frequently comorbid with hypertension, which is approximately twice as common as diabetes mellitus in China. We designed a case-control association study to inspect the susceptibility of the receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) gene 6 variants to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in 2199 patients with primary hypertension (1252 diabetic cases and 947 nondiabetic controls). The...
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