Aldosterone is significantly associated with higher systolic blood pressure in Hispanics compared to other ethnicities, suggesting potential mechanistic differences in hypertension.
Compared with whites, blacks have lower aldosterone and Hispanics have higher PRA. Aldosterone had significant associations with higher SBP in Hispanics compared with other groups, a finding that may suggest a different mechanism of hypertension.
Rifkin et al. (Thu,) studied this question.