... and 91 patients with untreated essential hypertension (diastolic >100 mmHg), 21 of whom had low-renin hypertension. Plasma concentrations of renin, angiotensin II and aldosterone were measured in all hypertensive patients, total body sodium, total body potassium and exchangeable potassium (K E...

...M. A. D. H. Schalekamp; W. H. Birkenhäger; G. A. Zaal; G. Kolsters 1. Intra-arterial pressure, cardiac output, renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate were measured in 19 patients with low-renin hypertension and in 30 patients with normal-renin hypertension. 2. Cardiac output and renal...

... in both groups and this dissociation was significantly more marked in the hypertensive group. 5. We suggest that (i) a relative autonomy of the renin—aldosterone system may be relevant to the pathogenesis and/or perpetuation of essential hypertension and (ii) that the syndrome of low-renin hypertension...

... was suppressed in patients with primary hyperaldosteronism. 3. In patients with low-renin hypertension and normal renin essential hypertension, the renin response to frusemide was similarly suppressed. 4. Suppression of the renin response to frusemide is therefore a feature of hypertension not confined...

...J. I. M. Drayer; P. W. C. Kloppenborg; T. J. Benraad 1. Three renin-stimulating methods for detection of low-renin hypertension have been compared. First, renin activity was measured in hospital patients after 5 days of sodium restriction and 3 h ambulation. Secondly, renin activity was measured...