High Blood Pressure Genes

Using modern sequencing.

High blood pressure genes. Rare genetic forms of hypertension are caused by mutations in particular genes many of which help control the balance of fluids and salts in the body and affect blood pressure. Dna genetics cosmin4000 istock getty images. 1 population based data from north america indicate that 33 5 of the adult general population has htn 2 whereas smoking hypercholesterolaemia and diabetes are. They will also likely open new doors to research into treating high blood pressure.

The findings will lead to a better understanding of the complex factors that affect blood pressure and may lead to new treatment approaches. Secondary hypertension results from other disorders that raise blood pressure in addition to other problems. Researchers found that 10 genetic variants individually explained about 1. There are many risk factors that increase your risk of developing high blood pressure.

The high blood pressure genetic link is not a life sentence to endless medications or endless hypertension. Persistently elevated blood pressure bp or hypertension htn is the most frequent classic cardiovascular risk factor and accounts for a large proportion of cardiovascular mortality the main cause of death worldwide. Your genes are one of several. Large scale studies of the genetic influences on blood pressure revealed dozens of new genetic variations associated with a risk of high blood pressure.

May 11 2009 a group of genes may raise the risks associated with high blood pressure such as heart attack and stroke. The influence of these variants on systolic and diastolic blood pressure turned out to be more complex than expected. It s based on my own experience and experiments and also an awful lot of research by my partner. Monday 11 may 2009 scientists have pinpointed a clutch of common genes that can lead to high blood pressure the daily mail reported.

Twenty five years ago an unusual inherited form of high blood pressure was first described in an australian family. The causes of essential hypertension however are not well. Taken together these findings suggest new genetic pathways underlying blood pressure regulation. It said that up to half the population carries the genes each of which has only a small effect but which together could raise the risk of heart attack by more than a fifth.

Hypertension can have a variety of causes. However the most recent major study in 2016 not only found more of these types of genes but also found three genes which have a larger effect on blood pressure. Its genetic cause however had remained elusive. Genes and high blood pressure.

The more of these genetic variations you have the more likely you are to have a genetic risk of high blood pressure.