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The view of arterial hypertension as an abnormal “quantity” is the well known milestone introduced by Pickering (1) in modern pathophysiological thinking. This provocative hypothesis opened the door to the search for factors capable of explaining the “continuum” between normal and abnormal values. Alterations in neural regulatory activities could be one of these factors (2–4), if not the prevailing one, at least in the early phases of this disorder of regulation. Along this line of reasoning, attention was focused on the sympathetic tone and on the direct or indirect signs of its possible enhanced level (2–4).
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Malliani, A. (1990). The sympatho-vagal balance and arterial hypertension. In: Descovich, G., Gaddi, A., Magri, G., Lenzi, S. (eds) Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0731-7_11
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