Selective Defect in Nitric Oxide Synthesis May Explain the Impaired Endothelium-Dependent Vasodilation in Patients With Essential Hypertension
- 10 March 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 97 (9) , 851-856
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.97.9.851
Abstract
Background—Patients with essential hypertension have impaired endothelial NO activity, but the mechanism underlying this abnormality is unknown. Methods and Results—To investigate whether the endot...Keywords
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