Do increased serum aldosterone levels within the physiologic range predispose nonhypertensive persons to the development of hypertension?
Higher serum aldosterone levels, even when within the normal physiologic range, may serve as a predictor or risk factor for the development of incident hypertension.
In our community-based sample, increased aldosterone levels within the physiologic range predisposed persons to the development of hypertension.
Vasan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.