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Identifying Interactions between Dietary Sodium, Potassium, Sodium-Potassium Ratios, and FGF5 rs16998073 Variants and Their Associated Risk for Hypertension in Korean Adults.
Nutrients - 17 Jul 2020
Jeong Hyeyun, Jin Hyun-Seok, Kim Sung-Soo, Shin Dayeon
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is affected by both genetic and dietary factors. This study aimed to examine the interaction between dietary sodium/potassium intake, sodium-potassium ratios, and FGF5 rs16998073 and link these with increased risk for developing hypertension. Using data from the Health Examinee (HEXA) Study of the Korean Genome and Epidemiologic Study (KoGES), we were able to identify a total of 17,736 middle-aged...
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