Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Gene I/D Polymorphism and Carotid Plaques in Japanese

Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 569-573

  Watanabe, Yasujirou ^a   Ishigami, Tomoaki ^a   Kawano, Yoshiyuki ^a   Umahara, Takahiko ^a   Nakamori, Akitoshi ^a   Mizushima, Shunsaku ^a   Hibi, Kiyoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Izumi ^a   Tamura, Kouichi ^a   Ochiai, Hisao ^a   Umemura, Satoshi ^a   Ishii, Masao ^a  

^a Yokohama City University   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COLORIMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030862539     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.30.3.569     Document Type: Article

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