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In essential hypertension, renal hemodynamics adjust gradually with increasing blood pressure—characterized by decreased renal blood flow and increased renovascular resistance—primarily to maintain a constant glomerular filtration rate. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

January 12, 1980Acta Medica Scandinavica

Blood Pressure and Renal Function

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Population

111 49-year-old men, not on antihypertensive treatment, without advanced hypertension, selected by…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

SLSusanne LjungmanSahlgrenska University Hospital MAMattias AurellAstraZeneca (Brazil)MHMarianne HartfordUniversity of Gothenburg

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Implication

Supports preserved renal autoregulation maintaining GFR across BP levels in untreated men; leaves open longitudinal renal outcomes.

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Population

111 49-year-old men, not on antihypertensive treatment, without advanced hypertension, selected by systematic sampling based on varying diastolic blood pressure levels.

Outcome

Renal blood flow (RBF), renovascular resistance (RVR), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), filtration fraction (FF) and renal concentrating capacitysurrogate

In men with varying blood pressure levels not on antihypertensive therapy, renal hemodynamics adjust to maintain a constant glomerular filtration rate.

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Ljungman et al. (1980) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1545e779ff98d0de4e5c2b https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0954-6820.1980.tb01144.x

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Blood Pressure and Renal Function

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Blood Pressure and Renal Function

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