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Aging is associated with an imbalance in sympathetic and parasympathetic outflow to cardiovascular effector organs. This autonomic imbalance contributes to the decline in cardiovagal baroreceptor ...

Introduction Physiology of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System and Its Pathophysiologic Role in Some Forms of Hypertension Renin in the Selection of Antihypertensive Drug Therapy Renin as a ...

Evidence suggests that virtually every organ system in the human body possesses a local renin–angiotensin system (RAS). These local systems seem to be independently regulated and compartmentalized ...

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Approximately one in five eligible patients hospitalized for ACS do not receive guideline-recommended ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker therapies. Guidelines from the American College of ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers conducted an umbrella review and meta-analysis of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors' impact on ...

Fourteen normotensive and 14 hypertensive black men with mild essential low-renin hypertension were examined during two protocols producing sodium depletion (less than 40 mmol sodium diet per day) for ...

Angiotensinogen is produced mainly in the liver and fat cells, in response to poor perfusion, and acts as a pro-signal in the complex downstream renin–angiotensin–aldosterone (RAAS) system.

Aldosterone was isolated from blood and urine, its adrenal origin elucidated, and its steroid structure identified nearly 50 years ago. Actions involving the reabsorption of sodium and the release of ...