Article
Genetic determinants of human hypertension.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Sept 1995
Lifton R P
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension is a common trait of multifactorial determination imparting an increased risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and end-stage renal disease. The primary determinants of hypertension, as well as the factors which determine specific morbid sequelae, remain unknown in the vast majority of subjects. Knowledge that a large fraction of the interindividual variation in this trait is genetically determined...
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