Jurilab Announces The completion Of A Genome-Wide Scan In Hypertension In The East Finland Founder Population

Between a quarter and a third of adults in developed countries suffer from hypertension, and this prevalence is on the rise. Hypertension starts to damage the heart, arteries, brains and kidneys already in childhood but is detectable by blood pressure measurements at the earliest in the adulthood. Also, most current antihypertensive drugs are not usable by all hypertension patients because of lack of efficacy and adverse reactions. As these differences between individuals are of genetic origin, molecular diagnostic tests can help the physician to start treatment early and to select the drug of choice without the expensive and harmful trial-and-error method.

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