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Article: GENE TRACKED FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 4, 1994
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Byline: Newsday
Discovery of a mutant gene that disrupts normal salt metabolism, causing a severe inherited form of high blood pressure, was announced Thursday by a team of researchers working on kidney function.
Although the disorder, called Liddle's syndrome, is quite rare, the newly found gene may be involved in many less severe cases of high blood pressure, according to researchers. That is important because hypertension is closely associated with common and costly circulatory ailments, especially heart disease and strokes.
The findings, announced in the journal Cell, ``raise the possibility that more subtle mutations in this same gene ...
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