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Position Paper: The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System for Blood Pressure Regulation and for Subdividing Patients to Reveal and Analyze Different Forms of Hypertension

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Frontiers in Hypertension Research

Abstract

A sustaining or causal role for renin in essential hypertension has at least begun to gain credence along with the concept that essential hypertension is not a single clinical entity. Indeed, only recently has renin secretion been implicated in renovascular hypertension; renin measurements were not included even in the broad 1972 evaluation of renovascular hypertension formulated by the National Cooperative Study Group (1).

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  1. Cardiovascular Center, Division of Cardiology, The New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, 10021, New York, New York, USA

    John H. Laragh M.D. (Hilda Altshul Master Professor of Medicine Director, Chief) (Hilda Altshul Master Professor of Medicine Director, Chief)

  2. Department of Medicine and Department of Research, University Hospital, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Fritz R. Bühler M.D. (Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Hypertension Unit Consultant in Cardiology) (Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Hypertension Unit Consultant in Cardiology)

  3. University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, 75216, USA

    Donald W. Seldin M.D., M.A.C.P. (William Buchanan Professor of Medicine Chairman of External Medicine Chief of Medical Service) (William Buchanan Professor of Medicine Chairman of External Medicine Chief of Medical Service)

  4. Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, 75216, USA

    Donald W. Seldin M.D., M.A.C.P. (William Buchanan Professor of Medicine Chairman of External Medicine Chief of Medical Service) (William Buchanan Professor of Medicine Chairman of External Medicine Chief of Medical Service)

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Laragh, J.H. (1981). Position Paper: The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System for Blood Pressure Regulation and for Subdividing Patients to Reveal and Analyze Different Forms of Hypertension. In: Laragh, J.H., Bühler, F.R., Seldin, D.W. (eds) Frontiers in Hypertension Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5899-5_34

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