The prevalence of hypertension is increasing in India as well as in the world. The average prevalence of hypertension in India is 25-30%. The median prevalence of total hypertension in 2009 was 37.6% in men and 40.1% in women in U.S. Hypertension is a major risk factor for majority of patients with cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal morbidity and mortality. Environmental factors as well ...

1 Department Sports and Movement Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 2 Department Kinesiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 3 Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. 4 Genetic Epidemiology, Centre for ...

Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, and Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; and Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Canc...

1 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD. 2 Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, ...

*Department of Environmental Health Sciences and †Department of Epidemiology and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; ‡Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205; and §Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Naci...

1Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 2Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 3Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA 4The Computational Genomics Lab, Depart...