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JOURNAL OF THE RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN-ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1470320320907820
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Overweight; obesity; ACE; AGT; genotypes; Tunisian population
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- Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Information and Communication Technologies, Tunisia
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Objective: This study aims to determine whether genetic variants in ACE I/D and AGT M235T are associated with overweight-obesity and body mass index (BMI) in a Tunisian population. Methods: We designed an age- and sex-matched case-control study. The height and weight were measured and BMI was calculated. A total of 259 overweight-obese patients and 369 healthy controls were genotyped for the ACE I/D and AGT M235T genes using polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism. Results: ACE I/D and AGT M235T genes were associated with BMI, waist circumference and overweight-obesity (p <= 0.001). In an additive model, the I and the M alleles in ACE and AGT variants, respectively, were associated with a lower BMI: -1.45 and -2.29 units, respectively. ACE I/D genotypes were associated with dyslipidemia; AGT M235T genotypes with dyslipidemia and total cholesterol. Conclusion: These data suggest that variations in ACE I/D and AGT M235T affect the risk of overweight-obesity, BMI and dyslipidemia, and could point to a key molecular pathway of metabolic syndrome and its related comorbidities.
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