Essential hypertension in African Caribbeans associates with a variant of the β2-adrenoceptor

Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 773-776

  Kotanko, Peter ^b   Binder, Alexander ^c   Tasker, Jacquie ^a   DeFreitas, Perry ^c   Kamdar, Sejal ^a   Clark, Adrian J L ^a   Skrabal, Falko ^c   Caulfield, Mark ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

African ethnicity; Genetics; Hypertension; 2 adrenoceptor gene

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DNA; GLYCINE; ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030813052     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.30.4.773     Document Type: Article

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