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Increased urinary free cortisol: a potential intermediate phenotype of essential hypertension.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Feb 1998
Litchfield W R, Hunt S C, Jeunemaitre X, Fisher N D, Hopkins P N, Williams R R, Corvol P, Williams G H
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We evaluated urinary cortisol excretion as a potential intermediate phenotype of essential hypertension in 153 white patients with essential hypertension and 18 normotensive white control subjects. Analyses were controlled for dietary sodium and gender to adjust for potential confounding effects of these variables on cortisol excretion. Urinary cortisol excretion measured on both high- and low-salt diets was...
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