Article
Genetics of hypertension. Therapeutic implications.
Drugs - 1 Aug 1998
O'Byrne S, Caulfield M
Abstract excerpt
Essential hypertension affects approximately 20% of the adult population, and has a multifactorial origin arising from an interaction between susceptibility genes and environmental factors. The understanding of the molecular basis of essential hypertension may provide us with new and more specifi...
Topics
- Antihypertensive Agents
- Calmodulin-Binding Proteins
- GTP-Binding Proteins
- Genetic Therapy
- Genotype
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Receptors, Angiotensin
- Renin-Angiotensin System