Role of angiotensinogen and relative aldosterone excess in salt-sensitive hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Satoh, Michihiro ^a   Kikuya, Masahiro ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a,b   Imai, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; RENIN;

AFRICA; ASIAN; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUID RETENTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; POTASSIUM URINE LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SALT SENSITIVE HYPERTENSION; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM RETENTION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENAL; MALE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84861526348     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.195230     Document Type: Letter

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