Oxford University Press (OUP), American Journal of Hypertension, 11(22), p. 1154-1159
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2009.158
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Sub-Saharan Africans face an increasing burden of hypertension and related cardiac and cerebrovascular morbidity and mortality, making the identification of factors leading to early vascular abnormalities imperative. METHODS We investigated the possible influence of the antioxidant glutathione (GSH) on early subclinical atherosclerosis in 63 hypertensive (aged 45.2 years) and 34 normotensive (aged 38.9 years; P