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  • Title: Renin and blood-pressure in children with renal scarring and vesicoureteric reflux.
    Author: Savage JM, Dillon MJ, Shah V, Barratt TM, Williams DI.
    Journal: Lancet; 1978 Aug 26; 2(8087):441-4. PubMed ID: 79805.
    Abstract:
    Plasma-renin-activity (P.R.A.) was raised in 9 of 15 hypertensive children with pyelonephritic scarring secondary to urinary-tract infection and vesicoureteric reflux and also in 8 of 100 normotensive children with such scars. P.R.A. was much less likely to fall with age in normotensive children with renal scarring than in normal children. The identification of hyperreninaemic normotensive children with renal scarring is important, since P.R.A. may prove to be of value in early identification of children at risk of developing hypertension. A longitudinal follow-up is proposed to establish this hypothesis.
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