Article
[Mechanisms of essential arterial hypertension].
La Revue du praticien - 1 Mar 1999
Joly D, Anglicheau D, Grünfeld J P
Abstract excerpt
Despite a very simple haemodynamic equation of blood pressure (cardiac output multiplied by systemic vascular resistances), the precise mechanisms of essential hypertension are still unknown. Blood pressure level is determined by many physiologic systems which are submitted to complex interactions; the 2 main anomalies associated with hypertension are a primitive defect in renal excretion of sodium and an...
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