Mechanisms of Essential Hypertension
It is now thought that essential hypertension results from an interaction of genetic and environmental factors that affect cardiac output, peripheral resistance, or both.
Genetic factors clearly play a role in determining blood pressure levels, as shown by studies comparing blood pressure in monozygotic and dizygotic twins, studies of familial aggregation of hypertension comparing the blood pressure of biologic and adoptive siblings, and adoption (...)
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