When someone has high blood pressure, or hypertension, it results in changes to the walls of their blood vessels. This process is known as arterial or vascular remodeling, which is driven by smooth muscle cells in the blood vessel wall. Researchers at Michigan Medicine have uncovered a key mechanism that regulates blood pressure and vascular remodeling—increasing downstream risk of heart attack and stroke—in people with a genetic variant linked to high blood pressure, a study in both animals and human samples suggests.
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