Pathogen Burden in Essential Hypertension
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Pathogen burden in essential hypertension.
BACKGROUND Associations between pathogens and hypertension (HT) has been reported, but few studies have focused on the relationship between aggregate pathogens and HT. The present study explored whether the risk of HT is associated with each pathogen (defined as Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniaee), mycoplasma pneumoniae (m. pneumoniae), helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) and coxsackie virus) or ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.71.1761