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  • Title: Blood pressure control in normotensive members of hypertensive families.
    Author: Bianchetti MG, Beretta-Piccoli C, Weidmann P, Ferrier C.
    Journal: Kidney Int; 1986 Apr; 29(4):882-8. PubMed ID: 3520094.
    Abstract:
    The cardiovascular pressor responses to a stepwise increase in plasma norepinephrine or angiotensin II concentrations, induced by infusions, were studied in 23 normotensive subjects with a negative and 25 with a positive family history of essential hypertension. The two study groups had a similar mean age (24 +/- 2 (SD) yr), body weight, blood pressure (112/64 +/- 10/7 mmHg), heart rate, plasma and urinary sodium and potassium, and plasma norepinephrine, epinephrine, angiotensin II, renin and aldosterone levels. However, subjects with positive history differed from those with negative history of hypertension by a decreased pressor dose of infused norepinephrine (89 +/- 29 vs. 135 +/- 66 ng/kg/min; P less than 0.005), and a significant (P less than 0.01) shift to the left of the relationship between norepinephrine-induced changes in mean arterial pressure and concomitant changes in plasma norepinephrine. In contrast, the relation between stepwise increasing plasma angiotensin II levels and induced changes in diastolic blood pressure or plasma aldosterone did not differ significantly between the two study groups. These findings delineate a distinct abnormality which may often occur in normotensive offspring of hypertensive families. It is characterized by a selectively disturbed noradrenergic blood pressure control in the presence of a normal angiotensin-mediated blood pressure and aldosterone regulation.
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