Drug-Gene Interactions of Antihypertensive Medications and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: A Pharmacogenomics Study from the CHARGE Consortium.

Drug-Gene Interactions of Antihypertensive Medications and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease: A Pharmacogenomics Study from the CHARGE Consortium.

Hypertension is a major risk factor for a spectrum of cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including myocardial infarction, sudden death, and stroke. In the US, over 65 million people have high blood pressure and a large proportion of these individuals are prescribed antihypertensive medications. Although...

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Main Authors: Joshua C Bis, Colleen Sitlani, Ryan Irvin, Christy L Avery, Albert Vernon Smith, Fangui Sun, Daniel S Evans, Solomon K Musani, Xiaohui Li, Stella Trompet, Bouwe P Krijthe, Tamara B Harris, P Miguel Quibrera, Jennifer A Brody, Serkalem Demissie, Barry R Davis, Kerri L Wiggins, Gregory J Tranah, Leslie A Lange, Nona Sotoodehnia, David J Stott, Oscar H Franco, Lenore J Launer, Til Stürmer, Kent D Taylor, L Adrienne Cupples, John H Eckfeldt, Nicholas L Smith, Yongmei Liu, James G Wilson, Susan R Heckbert, Brendan M Buckley, M Arfan Ikram, Eric Boerwinkle, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Anton J M de Craen, Andre G Uitterlinden, Jerome I Rotter, Ian Ford, Albert Hofman, Naveed Sattar, P Eline Slagboom, Rudi G J Westendorp, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ramachandran S Vasan, Thomas Lumley, Steven R Cummings, Herman A Taylor, Wendy Post, J Wouter Jukema, Bruno H Stricker, Eric A Whitsel, Bruce M Psaty, Donna Arnett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4627813?pdf=render

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