Lipid Profile and Kidney Functions in Hypertension (hypertension with and without Complications)

The present concept of pathogenesis of hypertension and atherosclerosis is based in response to injury hypothesis. This injury later may alter the functional characteristics of the endothelium leaving endothelial cell – cell nondisjunction and endothelial retraction exposing the underlying connective tissue and accumulation of foam cells such as macrophages, that form the first and ubiquitous lesion of atherosclerosis, the fatty streak.