CDKN2B-AS1 and Hypertension: The most common associated clinical condition in suspected patients with CAD was hypertension which was present in 46% of the study population while the least common one was smoking which represented 16% of the patients The expression analysis of the ANRIL transcripts including EU (exon1-5) and NR (exon 17-18) indicated that the EU741058 variant was downregulated in the CAD patients as compared with healthy controls (P=0.001) (Figure 2).