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Serum angiotensinogen concentration in relation to gonadal hormones, body size, and genotype in growing young people.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Nov 1998
Pratt J H, Ambrosius W T, Tewksbury D A, Wagner M A, Zhou L, Hanna M P
Abstract excerpt
Multiple factors are thought to influence the level of circulating angiotensinogen (AGT). We showed previously that the serum AGT concentration was significantly related to body mass index (BMI) in a cohort of young people. In the present study, we studied whether levels of the gonadal hormones estradiol and testosterone might also predict the AGT level and might contribute to the BMI effect, since both the...
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