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SUBMITTER: Dahan I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4481085 | biostudies-other | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dahan Inbal I Farber Evgeny E Thauho Nadia N Nakhoul Nakhoul N Francis Adi A Awawde Mohamad M Levy Andrew P AP Kim-Shapiro Daniel B DB Basu Swati S Nakhoul Farid F
Journal of diabetes research 20150611
Elevated systolic pulmonary artery pressure (s-PAP, ≥35 mmHg) serves as an independent predictor of mortality in hemodialysis (HD) and diabetic (DM) patients. A polymorphism in the antioxidant Haptoglobin (Hp) gene has been shown to regulate the bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO), a major mediator of pulmonary vascular tone. We therefore set out to test the hypothesis that the Hp polymorphism may be a determinant of developing elevated s-PAP specifically in the DM state due to a decreased bioa ...[more]