Decrease with age in frequency of the homozygous deletional angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype in hypertensive patients.

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1998.tb02345.x

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Decrease with age in frequency of the homozygous deletional angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype in hypertensive patients.

Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Nov 1998

Cheung B M, Lau C P, Leung R Y, Tan K C

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1. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) genotypes in hypertensive patients were studied in order to delineate their cardiovascular risk due to the ACE gene. We hypothesized that the distribution of ACE genotypes may change with age because of the risk of myocardial infarction associated with the h...

Topics

Aging
Alleles
Female
Gene Deletion
Genotype
Homozygote
Humans
Hypertension
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Risk Factors

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