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Hypertension
Recent findings in hypertension described
February 17th, 2005
Hypertension research advances have been reported from the United States and People's Republic of China. Study 1: The endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene may play a role in predisposing females to hypertension. "Impaired endothelial function caused by decreased nitric oxide (NO) production plays a pathophysiologic role in essential hypertension. Although cross-sectional data are available on the association between endothelial NO synthase gene polymorphisms and hypertension, whether the gene variants and their haplotypes affect the long-term cumulative burden and trend of blood pressure since childhood is not known," said W. Chen and colleagues,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-17)
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