Population
72 subjects, comprising normal controls, patients with untreated mild essential hypertension, and patients…
Design
Cross-sectional
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ANF may mark hypertensive cardiac changes; hypothesis-generating for biomarker utility and requires prospective validation.
Plasma ANF levels correlate with left atrial and interventricular septum size, suggesting ANF may reflect the impact of blood pressure on the myocardium and the degree of cardiac impairment.
Testaert et al. (1989) studied this question.
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