Essential hypertension is perhaps the number-one health problem of Black Americans.
Research has indicated that stress-induced cardiovascular hyperreactivity may be a …

A good understanding of predictors of hypertension should allow the selection of
populations with a sufficiently high incidence of later hypertension to warrant preventive use …

The 17th century London neuroanatomical school headed by Thomas Willis provided us
with the first identifiable images of the sympathetic nervous system. Nineteenth century …

Age versus urinary sodium for judging renin, aldosterone, and catecholamine levels: Studies
in normal subjects and patients with essential hypertension. The relative influence of sodium …

This study examines the possibility that 24-hour differences in blood pressure (BP)
regulation between hypertensive and normotensive subjects is related to changes in 24 …

Recent research shows that the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis either maintains or
causes some or all of the high blood pressure of most patients and demonstrates anew that …

Plasma renin activity (renin) and hemodynamic response to venous pooling of blood in legs
were studied in 24 healthy volunteers and four patients who after bilateral nephrectomy …

The association between renal disease and blood pressure was postulated by Bright in
1836. Tigerstedt and Bergman demonstrated the presence of a pressor substance in a …

It is widely accepted that the pathophysiology of hypertension involves autonomic nervous
system dysfunction, as well as a multitude of immune responses. However, the close …

Almost all comparative studies of plasma catecholamines in patients with essential
hypertension (EH) and in normotensive controls have reported higher mean norepinephrine …