Association study between some renin-angiotensin system gene variants and essential hypertension in a sample of Algerian population: case control study.

Essential hypertension is an important risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. We aim in this study to analyse the relationship between AGT M235T gene variant and ACE I/D gene variant with essential hypertension in a sample of the Algerian population of the Oran city. A case-control study has been performed in 145 subjects including; 75 hypertensives and 70 controls from Algerian population of Oran city.