Loosening the cuff: Important new advances in modeling antihypertensive treatment effects in genetic studies of hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-198

  Palmer, Lyle J ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITARY HYPERTENSION; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD PRESSURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 0037315389     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000051503.09587.E4     Document Type: Short Survey

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