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Original Source: Accomplices of Insulin Resistance in Prehypertension: Aldosterone?
The purposes of the study are to evaluate the relative contributions of insulin resistance and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system to blood pressure (BP) in subjects with prehypertension. This is a cross-sectional study. Anthropometric and BP measurements will be performed in 50 prehypertensive subjects. The subjects will receive a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test and a postural stimulation test for the measurements of insulin resistance, plasma rennin concentration and ald...
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The gold standard in lung testing In the same way that blood pressure measurements provide a simple yet effective screening method for cardiovascular disease, spirometry tests can help to unmask t...
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DiaSorin Gets FDA Clearance for LIAISON Aldosterone Assay
DiaSorin Inc. has received FDA clearance for their LIAISON Aldosterone immunoassay. It is intended for the quantitative determination of Aldosterone in human serum, EDTA plasma and urine sa...
Glucose tolerance test — Overview covers definition, preparation, results of this diabetes blood test.
Aldosterone Antagonists Over ARBs for Add-on RAAS Blockade
For patients with symptomatic systolic heart failure on ACE inhibitors, further renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system suppression with spironolactone (or eplerenone) should help clinically with reasona...
Aldosterone Antagonists Improve EF and Functional Capacity
How much clinical improvement can be expected for heart failure patients of various NYHA classes -- when an aldosterone blocking agent is added? Heart
Key developments in renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibition
The development of blockers of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) has led to the identification of new RAAS components that might contribute to the effectiveness and/or adverse effect...
Single C-peptide as good as full mixed-meal tolerance test
(HealthDay)—For children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, the 90-minute mixed-meal tolerance test (MMTT)-stimulated C-peptide (CP; 90CP) is a highly sensitive and specific measure of area under...
More evidence of nephrotoxicity with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system blockers
Lapi and colleagues provide more evidence that renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) blockers can be nephrotoxic in the long term in certain populations1 2—namely, older patients with chronic....
Transplantation: Is donor T-cell engraftment a biomarker for tolerance?
The link between chimerism and tolerance is well established. In a rhesus macaque study, Ramakrishnan et al. show that the type of chimerism might have an important effect on tolerance to kidney allo...
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BAS/BSCR24 Spironolactone reverses the adverse effects of aldosterone and hypoxia on adipose tissue.
We tested the hypothesis that aldosterone causes a loss of the normal anticontractile function of healthy fat via a hypoxia-related pathway, which can be rescued using spironolactone. Healthy rat mese...
Aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptors: a personal reflection.
Since the isolation and characterization of aldosterone in 1953, subsequent developments in the field can be neatly considered over three time spans, each of two decades. In the first aldosterone itse...
Acute and chronic regulation of aldosterone production.
Aldosterone is the major mineralocorticoid synthesized by the adrenal and plays an important role in the regulation of systemic blood pressure through the absorption of sodium and water. Aldosterone p...
Gestational Diabetes - Whom Do We Treat?
Gestational Diabetes - Whom Do We Treat? Editorial, N Engl J Med 2009;361:1396-1398. In the fifth paragraph (page 1397), beginning "Differences between the two studies . . . ," the third sentence sh...
Introduction: Measurement of plasma aldosterone/renin ratio is the key step in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism. Aim: The aim of the authors was to analyze and compare the diagnostic utility of...
