Aldosterone excess and essential hypertension
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Essential hypertension and aldosterone.
MANY FACTORS have been implicated in the etiology of essential hypertension and at present the primary cause of this disease remains obscure. The relationship of sodium to the development of hypertension and the question of involvement of the adrenal cortex has been the subject of numerous investigations. Efforts by earlier investigators to show a hypersecretion of corticosteroids in this condi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Hypertension
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0950-9240,1476-5527
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001446