Lifestyle May Counter Blood Pressure Genes

(Drugs.com) — Being born with genes that predispose you to high blood pressure doesn’t mean you’re doomed to have it, a long-term study shows. “It’s been known for many years that blood pressure is affected by genes,” said Dr. Nora Franceschini, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina and lead author of a report on the study. “It’s also known that lifestyle affects blood pressure. Now we are showing that they interact, and that the effect of those genes varies among individuals who have different behaviors.”

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