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Essential hypertension in patients exposed to high-arsenic exposed areas in western China: Genetic susceptibility and urinary arsenic metabolism characteristics.
Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS) - 1 Sept 2021
Cheng Jin, Li Yuanyuan, He Qian, Luo Lanrong, Zhang Yanting, Gao Yanhui, Feng Hongqi, Zhao Lijun, Wei Wei, Fu Songbo, Sun Dianjun
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To clarify the urinary arsenic metabolism characteristics in individuals with essential hypertension and to analyze the relationship between lipid metabolism gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to essential hypertension in individuals in high-arsenic areas in western China. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted and involved individuals exposed to high arsenic levels (in this study, the arsenic...
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