Office blood pressure, heart rate and A(-596)G interleukin-6 gene polymorphism in apparently healthy Czech middle-aged population

Physiological Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-297

  Vašků, Anna ^a   Soucek M ^b   Goldbergova M ^a   Vacha J ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; BMI; Gene polymorphism; Healthy subjects; Heart rate; Interleukin 6; Smoking

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ALLELES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CZECH REPUBLIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0038680619     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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