Insulin resistance (IR) increases the risk of several macrovascular complications, including stroke and myocardial infarction, and can cause hypertension. When hypertension and IR are concomitant ...

A key question is whether sequence variations in any of these 17 genes are involved in the pathogenesis of primary hypertension, which afflicts 7 million African Americans and is the most ...

and consideration of epistasis and gene-environment interaction are necessary to make a true determination of whether AGTR1 polymorphisms have a role in the pathogenesis of hypertension.

Review: Immune mechanisms in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Image Credit: Meletios Verras / Shutterstock Hypertension ...

Age, anticoagulant use, hypertension, and genetic cardiovascular (CV ... These findings underscore the role of thrombotic and inflammatory mechanisms in the pathogenesis of cranial ischemic ...