Article
Hypertension: genes and environment.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Apr 1998
Hamet P, Pausova Z, Adarichev V, Adaricheva K, Tremblay J
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension can be classified as either Mendelian hypertension or essential hypertension, on the basis of the mode of inheritance. The Mendelian forms of hypertension develop as a result of a single gene defect, and as such are inherited in a simple Mendelian manner. In contrast, essential hyper...
Topics
- Animals
- Diet
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Mutation
- Rats
- Stress, Physiological