Sex Differences in Genetic Risk for Hypertension

Hypertension. 2021 Sep;78(4):1153-1155. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17796. Epub 2021 Aug 15.

Anni Kauko¹, Jenni Aittokallio^{2

3}, Felix Vaura¹, Hongwei Ji⁴, Joseph E Ebinger⁴, Teemu Niiranen^#^{1

5

6}, Susan Cheng^#^{4

7}

¹ Department of Internal Medicine (A.K., F.V., T.N.), University of Turku, Finland.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (J.A.), University of Turku, Finland.
³ Division of Perioperative Services, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine (J.A.), Turku University Hospital, Finland.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (H.J., J.E.E., S.C.).
⁵ Division of Medicine (T.N.), Turku University Hospital, Finland.
⁶ Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland (T.N.).
⁷ Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (S.C.).

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: blood pressure; epidemiology; genetics; hypertension; sex differences.

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