New genes that influence blood pressure

Scientists have discovered several new genes that influence blood pressure
An international team of scientists from the U.S., the Netherlands and Iceland has discovered several new genes that influence blood pressure. According to a press release distributed by the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., it could open new avenues of research aimed at prevention and treatment of hypertension.

The press release states that the work was based on the basis of several large-scale medical projects, covering a total of observations over more than 29 thousand people. For comparison, used even larger database - to 34 thousand patients.

The result has been found "substantial relationship" with the level of arterial blood pressure of 11 genes: four - for systolic blood pressure, six - for diastolic and one - for hypertension. One of the leaders of the study, director of cardiology Framingemskogo project, Dr. Daniel Levy said that the key eight of these genes are still not part of whose short list of key suspects in the effects on blood pressure. "

The authors suggest that high blood pressure - a hereditary disease, but previous attempts to identify specific genes that are associated with it were only "partially successful". According to their data, in the whole world from cardiovascular and other diseases associated with abnormal blood pressure, die every year more than 7 million people. In the U.S. pressure increased roughly one in three adult residents of the country, ie approximately 72 million people.