AGT M235T genotype/anxiety interaction and gender in the HyperGEN study.
BackgroundBoth anxiety and elevated heart rate (HR) have been implicated in the development of hypertension.The HyperGen cohort, consisting of siblings with severe and mild hypertension, an age-matched random sample of persons from the same base populations, and unmedicated adult offspring of the hypertensive siblings (N = 1,002 men and 987 women),