, ever smoking with ICAM-1 concentrations (partial R = 0.142 (P = 0.035)), hypertension, diastolic blood pressure, ESR and glucose concentrations with those of E-selection (partial R = 0.176 (P = 0.01), 0.144 (P = 0.037), 0.227 (P = 0.001) and 0.147 (P = 0.036) resp). This evidence concerns the gene ICAM1 and Hypertension.