Fifty per cent of patients with heart failure, ha increased plasma angiotension II despite chronic ACE inhibitor therapy. These patients had higher neurohormonal activation and poor prognosis.
In view of such results, we believe that the decrease of respiratory chain complex III activity found in some cases of IDC is a secondary phenomenon, and not due to a primary mitochondrial disease.
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