[News Feed] New Model Shows Gender Differences In High Blood Pressure, Jefferson Scientists Find

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Researchers have implicated a protein called GRK5 as having an important role behind essential hypertension, which affects more than 65 million Americans. When they
overexpressed a mouse gene for GRK5, the researchers saw extreme rises in blood pressure even when the animals were resting. Not only that, they found that blood pressure spikes were less pronounced in females, suggesting two things: a possible biomarker for hypertension, and a potential model for hypertension in women.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1006082822.htm