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  • Title: Elevated levels of parathyroid hormone in essential hypertensive patients with increased erythrocyte potassium efflux.
    Author: Diez J, Huarte E, Esparza N.
    Journal: Am J Hypertens; 1991 Aug; 4(8):714-8. PubMed ID: 1930854.
    Abstract:
    Previous observations suggest that Ca(2+)-dependent K+ efflux is increased in erythrocytes from spontaneously hypertensive rats. On the other hand, it has been reported that hyperparathyroidism induces an increase in Ca(2+)-dependent K+ efflux of human erythrocytes. To investigate whether Ca(2+)-dependent K+ efflux is altered in essential hypertension quinine-sensitive K+ efflux was measured in erythrocytes from 20 normotensive controls and 30 nontreated essential hypertensives. The quinine-sensitive K+ efflux was similar for hypertensive patients (593 +/- 20 mmol/L cells/h) as compared with normotensive controls (532 +/- 34 mmol/L cells/h). Ten hypertensives exhibited values of quinine-sensitive K+ efflux above an upper normal limit of 650 mmol/L cells/h. As compared with controls those patients presented elevated plasma levels of parathyroid hormone (P less than .05). In addition, a positive correlation was found between parathyroid hormone and quinine-sensitive K+ efflux in the above ten hypertensives (R = 0.85, P less than .001). These results suggest that an excess of parathyroid hormone may be involved in the increase of Ca(2+)-dependent K+ efflux present in some essential hypertensive patients.
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