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Haptoglobin polymorphism, a genetic risk factor in coronary artery bypass surgery.
Atherosclerosis - 25 Jul 1997
Delanghe J, Cambier B, Langlois M, De Buyzere M, Neels H, De Bacquer D, Van Cauwelaert P
Abstract excerpt
Haptoglobin (Hp) 2-2 type has been associated with accumulation of atherosclerotic lesions in essential hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between Hp type and the extension of coronary lesions in 765 male patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). In this group, relative Hp1 (0.418) and Hp2 (0.582) allele frequencies were comparable with those of the...
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