Left ventricular mass in hereditary human hypertension: glucocorticoid-suppressible hyperaldosteronism.

doi:10.1097/00004872-199505000-00011

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Left ventricular mass in hereditary human hypertension: glucocorticoid-suppressible hyperaldosteronism.

Journal of hypertension - 1 May 1995

Jamieson A, Murdoch D, Kennedy J A, Connell J M

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BACKGROUND: The mineralocorticoid hormone aldosterone may be an important mediator of pathological ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure. Much of the evidence for this arises from experimental work in rat models of mineralocorticoid-dependent hypertension, and a pathological role in humans is...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Aldosterone
Blood Pressure
Child
Female
Genotype
Glucocorticoids
Humans
Hyperaldosteronism
Hypertension
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
Male
Middle Aged

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