Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as above-goal elevated blood pressure (BP) in a
patient despite the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive drug classes, commonly including a …

Background and Purpose: Population-wide reductions in cardiovascular disease incidence
and mortality have not been shared equally by African Americans. The burden of …

Nitric oxide (NO) signalling has pleiotropic roles in biology and a crucial function in
cardiovascular homeostasis. Tremendous knowledge has been accumulated on the …

The cushioning function of large arteries encompasses distension during systole and recoil
during diastole which transforms pulsatile flow into a steady flow in the microcirculation …

We apply integrative approaches to expression quantitative loci (eQTLs) from 44 tissues
from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project and genome-wide association study data …

Cardiac diseases form the lion's share of the global disease burden, owing to the paradigm
shift to non-infectious diseases from infectious ones. The prevalence of CVDs has nearly …

Hypertension is available at http://hyper. ahajournals. org DOI: 10.1161/HYP.
0000000000000047 e8 Hypertension September 2016 distributed trait. Therefore, defining …

To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ
damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 …

Longitudinal electronic health records on 99,785 Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult
Health and Aging (GERA) cohort individuals provided 1,342,814 systolic and diastolic blood …

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature death.
However, there is limited knowledge on specific causal genes and pathways. To better …