Endocrine Hypertension.

Testing for Endocrine Hypertension

Endocrine hypertension belongs to the group of secondary forms of hypertension and mostly is caused by disorders of the adrenal gland. There are also nonadrenal endocrine conditions that can lead to hypertension secondary to hormonal imbalance and this chapter reviews how to best identify patients with and test for such disorders. For complete coverage of all related areas of Endocrinology, ple...

Screening for Endocrine Hypertension: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Nutrition, and Internal Medicine, and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905; Vascular Biology and Hypertension Program, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294; Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud UniversityMedical Ce...

Synthesis of endocrine control in hypertension.

Endocrine sodium and volume regulation in familial hyperkalemia with hypertension.

The hormonal regulation of sodium and volume homeostasis was investigated in three patients (two related) with the syndrome of familial hyperkalemic acidosis and hypertension with normal glomerular filtration rate. Recumbent plasma renin activity was low during normal sodium intake (135 mmol daily), and the response to upright posture or to low sodium diet (10 mmol daily) was blunted. Recumbent...

Absence of significant endocrine deficiencies in benign intracranial hypertension.

Hypothalamic-pituitary function tests have been carried out in young, obese females with both recently diagnosed and longstanding benign intracranial hypertension. No abnormalities have been found which could be implicated in the pathogenesis of the condition, nor have we been able to demonstrate any convincing evidence of long-term hypothalamic pituitary damage. The results of these investigat...