منابع مشابه
Sex hormones and hypertension.
Gender has an important influence on blood pressure, with premenopausal women having a lower arterial blood pressure than age-matched men. Compared with premenopausal women, postmenopausal women have higher blood pressures, suggesting that ovarian hormones may modulate blood pressure. However, whether sex hormones are responsible for the observed gender-associated differences in arterial blood ...
متن کاملGender, sex hormones and pulmonary hypertension
Most subtypes of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are characterized by a greater susceptibility to disease among females, although females with PAH appear to live longer after diagnosis. While this "estrogen paradoxȍ of enhanced female survival despite increased female susceptibility remains a mystery, recent progress has begun to shed light upon the interplay of sex hormones, the pathogen...
متن کاملIdiopathic intracranial hypertension, hormones, and 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) results in raised intracranial pressure (ICP) leading to papilledema, visual dysfunction, and headaches. Obese females of reproductive age are predominantly affected, but the underlying pathological mechanisms behind IIH remain unknown. This review provides an overview of pathogenic factors that could result in IIH with particular focus on hormones and...
متن کاملSex hormones as potential modulators of vascular function in hypertension.
The greater incidence of hypertension in men and postmenopausal women compared with premenopausal women has suggested gender differences in vascular function. Vascular effects of the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone and the male hormone testosterone have been described. Sex steroid receptors have been identified in vascular endothelium and smooth muscle. Interaction of sex hormones...
متن کاملAdrenocortical hormones in human hypertension and their relation to angiotensin.
P WORK from our laboratory has shown a significant mean increase in urinary aldosterone in groups of patients with essential, renal, and malignant hypertension and its excessive daily fluctuations in benign and severe hypertensive patients." These results have been confirmed by several groups of workers*" and by R. Romanelli (personal communication). More recently, Laragh et al. have found incr...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Kidney Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2048-8505,2048-8513
DOI: 10.1093/ndtplus/4.s2.45