An aldosterone synthase gene variant is associated with improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction in dilated cardiomyopathy

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 584-589

  Tiago, Armindo D ^a   Badenhorst, Danelle ^a   Skudicky, Daniel ^a   Woodiwiss, Angela J ^a   Candy, Geoffrey P ^a   Brooksbank, Richard ^a   Sliwa, Karen ^a   Sareli, Pinhas ^a   Norton, Gavin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Sequence (DNA RNA prot)

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; TRANDOLAPRIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIGOXIN; DIURETICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0036268068     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00281-X     Document Type: Article

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