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Is renal dopaminergic activity suppressed in young healthy normotensive subjects with a family history of hypertension?
Is renal dopaminergic activity suppressed in young healthy normotensive subjects with a family history of hypertension?
Renal dopaminergic activity is already suppressed at the prehypertensive stage in individuals with a family history of hypertension, likely due to reduced conversion of l-dopa to dopamine in the proximal tubules.
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Supports early dopaminergic defect in FH+ normotensives; hypothesis-generating and requires longitudinal confirmation before clinical relevance.
limura et al. (1990) studied this question.
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