Why the study?
Does antihypertensive therapy with felodipine and metoprolol or unclipping improve cardiac function and reverse LV hypertrophy in two-kidney, one-clip Goldblatt hypertensive rats?
Does antihypertensive therapy with felodipine and metoprolol or unclipping improve cardiac function and reverse LV hypertrophy in two-kidney, one-clip Goldblatt hypertensive rats?
In a rat model of renal hypertension, antihypertensive therapy prevents LV hypertrophy and normalizes myosin isoenzymes but does not fully restore cardiac function at high aortic pressures, suggesting the hypertensive state itself determines reduced cardiac function.
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Therapy prevents hypertrophy without restoring high-pressure performance; leaves open hypertension per se as driver of dysfunction in renal models.
Friberg et al. (1989) studied this question.
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