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[Characteristics of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in Carriers of Polymorphic Variants of the VDR Gene With Arterial Hypertension and Obesity].
Kardiologiia - 1 Aug 2018
Sentsova T B, Vorozhko I V, Chernyak O O, Bogdanov A R, Zaletova T S, Gioeva Z M, Bogdanova A A, Donnikov A E
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AIM: to study the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system (RAAS) in patients with polymorphic variants of the vitamin D receptor gene (VDR), arterial hypertension (AH) and obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We included in this study 98 patients with stage II-III AH and obesity (33 men, 65 women, mean age 61.1±9.9 years and BMI 43.3±5.0 kg/m2). The VDR gene study included genotypes TaqI, BsmI, FokI. After identification...
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