Relationships between Plasma Catecholamines, Renin, Age and Blood Pressure in Essential Hypertension

Cardiology ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 308-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Agabiti-Rosei ◽  
Carlo Alicandri ◽  
Marina Beschi ◽  
Maurizio Castellano ◽  
Luigi Corea ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines

An Unsuccessful Attempt to Treat Hypertension with Acupuncture

1977 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sugioka ◽  
W. Mao ◽  
J. Woods ◽  
R. A. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Acupuncture Treatment ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Systemic Blood Pressure ◽  
Patient Acceptance ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
Poor Patient ◽  
Beneficial Response

The effectiveness of 5 sets of acupuncture loci in decreasing systemic blood pressure was compared with chlorthalidone and propranolol in patients with essential hypertension. No statistically significant acute or long-term changes in plasma catecholamines, renin activity, or blood pressure and pulse rate were observed as a result of acupuncture treatment. The decrease in blood pressure was significantly less than the observed with propranolol, but not significantly less than produced by chlorthalidone. Because of the poor patient acceptance of acupuncture and in the absence of a beneficial response, we feel acupuncture as employed in this study is of limited value in the management of patients with essential hypertension.

scholarly journals Comparative Effects of Prazosin and Phenoxybenzamine on Arterial Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Plasma Catecholamines in Essential Hypertension

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Mulvihill-Wilson ◽  
Robert M. Graham ◽  
William Pettinger ◽  
Carolyn Muckleroy ◽  
Shirley Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Arterial Blood

Plasma Dopamine β-Hydroxylase and Noradrenaline Amounts in Essential Hypertension

1973 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Geffen ◽  
R. A. Rush ◽  
W. J. Louis ◽  
A. E. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous System ◽  
Diastolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Plasma Noradrenaline ◽  
Elevated Blood Pressure ◽  
Elevated Blood ◽  
Sympathetic Nervous

1. Plasma dopamine β-hydroxylase (DβH) amounts were measured by radioimmunoassay in twenty-eight patients, twenty of whom had essential hypertension. There was a positive correlation between resting diastolic blood pressure and plasma DβH concentration. 2. Plasma DβH amounts also correlated significantly with those of plasma noradrenaline (NA) in individual patients. 3. These findings provide further support for the conclusions drawn from studies of plasma catecholamines that the sympathetic nervous system contributes toward the maintenance of the elevated blood pressure in essential hypertension.

Plasma Catecholamines and Renin Activity in Response to Exercise in Patients with Essential Hypertension

1975 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-514
Author(s):  
J. Chodakowska ◽  
K. Nazar ◽  
B. Wocial ◽  
M. Jarecki ◽  
B. Skórka
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Plasma Renin Activity ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Plasma Renin ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Renin Activity ◽  
Plasma Noradrenaline ◽  
Hypertensive Patients ◽  
Control Subjects

1. The effect of physical exercise on blood pressure, plasma catecholamines and plasma renin activity was studied in fourteen patients with essential hypertension and in eight healthy subjects. 2. Resting plasma noradrenaline and adrenaline and plasma renin activity of the hypertensive patients did not differ from those of the control subjects. 3. In response to graded exercise producing successive heart rates of 120, 140 and 160 beats/min, significantly greater increases of blood pressure were found in the patients than in the control subjects. 4. Plasma noradrenaline increased significantly in both groups at all levels of exercise, the responses being significantly greater in the hypertensive patients. 5. The mean arterial blood pressure was significantly correlated with plasma noradrenaline concentration in the control subjects but not in the hypertensive patients. 6. In the hypertensive group plasma adrenaline increased significantly after exercise at all work loads whereas, in the control group, significant increase occurred only at the highest work load. The differences in the response of the two groups were significant at each work load. 7. Plasma renin activity increased significantly after exercise at the heart rate of 120 beats/min, both in the hypertensive patients and in the control subjects. The magnitude of the response was similar in the two groups.

Effects of Diltiazem and Nifedipine on Blood Pressure, Plasma Catecholamines and Serum Lipoproteins in Essential Hypertension

1985 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
K-L Schulte ◽  
W A Meyer-Sabellek ◽  
A Haertenberger ◽  
H M Thiede ◽  
A Distler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Serum Lipoproteins ◽  
Pressure Plasma

Comparative Effects of Prazosin and Phenoxybenzamine on Arterial Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, and Plasma Catecholamines in Essential Hypertension

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Mulvihill-Wilson ◽  
Robert M. Graham ◽  
William Pettinger ◽  
Carolyn Muckleroy ◽  
Shirley Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Arterial Blood Pressure ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Arterial Blood

Is Blood Pressure Variability Related to Activity of the Sympathetic System?

1979 ◽  
Vol 57 (s5) ◽  
pp. 217s-219s ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Clement ◽  
M. M. Mussche ◽  
G. Vanhoutte ◽  
R. Pannier
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Blood Pressure Variability ◽  
Plasma Catecholamines ◽  
Sympathetic Nerves ◽  
Supine Blood Pressure ◽  
Sympathetic Function ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Cold Pressure

1. In 70 patients with untreated essential hypertension, blood pressure variability was correlated to plasma catecholamines and to the response of blood pressure and peripheral flow to cold pressure and handgrip tests. 2. Supine blood pressure was recorded every 5 min, during 3 h. Variability was defined as the standard deviation of the mean of the readings in that period. 3. Blood pressure variability is positively and significantly correlated to the level of pressure and to age. 4. No significant correlation could be found with plasma catecholamines and sympathetic function tests. 5. It is concluded that blood pressure variability is related to the level of pressure but not to activity of the sympathetic nerves.

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