Article
[The polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene in patients with hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy and the development of a myocardial infarct at a young age. Preliminary report].
Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 1 Jan 1997
Moiseev V S, Demurov L M, Kobalava Zh D, Chistiakov D A, Tereshchenko S N, Kondrat'ev Ia Iu, Korovina E A, Nosikov V V
Abstract excerpt
Insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of angiotensin-I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene was studied by use of the polymerase chain reaction in 168 normal subjects living in Moscow region and in 70 patients: 38 with essential hypertension (EH), 9 of which survived myocardial infarction at young age, 13 with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCMP) and 19 with myocardial infarction (MI). Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)...
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