Arterial hypertension (AH) and obesity - risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and their complications, leading to high morbidity and mortality. These nosologies notedly linked, because have common etiological factors, pathophysiological mechanisms and genetic determination. The aim this research was to analyze the distribution of genotypes of the C825T polymorphism of β3-subunit G-protein gene (GNB3) according the degree of obesity and to assess the risk of obesity in patients with AH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF