Article
Adaptation, allometry, and hypertension.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Aug 1994
Weder A B, Schork N J
Abstract excerpt
Essential hypertension is a "disease of civilization" but has a clear genetic component. From an evolutionary perspective, persistence in the human genome of elements capable of raising blood pressure presupposes their adaptive significance. Recently, two hypotheses that explicitly appeal to sele...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genotype
- Growth
- Humans
- Hypertension