Population
401 patients and 98 patients with mild essential hypertension, evaluated after overnight recumbency and on a…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Aldosterone may appear relatively elevated versus declining renin in older hypertensives; leaves open need for age-specific diagnostic thresholds in prospective studies.
In older patients with mild essential hypertension, plasma aldosterone concentrations appear inappropriately elevated relative to plasma renin activity, which declines with age.
Guthrie et al. (1976) studied this question.
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