Cadmium and hypertension.
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1994-06-01
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Hypertension is a very common and important disease of modern civilised life. There are comflicting reports about cadmium, a trace element in the genesis of essential hypertension. The present study was conducted to estimate the cadmium levels in whole blood in the normal group of thirty subjects who were normotensive and the same was compared to that of thirty hypertensive patients and the levels were found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05).
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Bakshi SK, Chawla KP, Khandekar RN, Raghunath R. Cadmium and hypertension. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. 1994 Jun; 42(6): 449-50