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Query: UMLS:C0085580 (essential hypertension)
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Some of the relatively easily measurable and possibly hypertension-associated parameters were evaluated in thirty normotensive young subjects divided into the PHT (either parent hypertensive) group and the PNT (both parents normotensive) group. In subjects of the PHT group, the platelet aggregating sensitivity to the arachidonic acid and the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol were significantly (p less than 0.05) increased while urinary kallikrein excretion was decreased without simultaneously significant elevation of blood pressure. The enhanced platelet aggregating sensitivity to the arachidonic acid and the increased ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol suggest that subjects with a positive family history of hypertension might have a greater tendency to atherosclerosis and could contribute to the development of essential hypertension. Decreased urinary kallikrein excretion suggests that the vasodepressive activity of the kallikrein-kinin system might be inhibited in subjects with a positive family history of hypertension.
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PMID:Relation of family history of hypertension to platelet aggregation, ratio of total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol and urinary kallikrein excretion. 643 May 81

Alteration of calcium metabolism and changes in the levels of calcium-regulating hormones have been described in essential hypertension. In the majority of the reported clinical trials, calcium supplementation has resulted in a decrease in blood pressure. However, the mechanisms by which such a response would be mediated are entirely unknown. The present study confirmed that daily supplementation with 1.4 g of elemental calcium led to a significant decrease in both systolic and diastolic blood pressures (P < .01). Decrease in blood pressure was negatively correlated with increase in plasma calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), measured with radioimmunoassay and by radioreceptor assay (P < .001), and positively correlated with decrease in intact parathyroid hormone (PHT) (P < .05). Following cessation of calcium supplementation, plasma CGRP levels and the blood pressure both reverted back to the base-line values, suggesting a direct effect of supplemented calcium on these two parameters.
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PMID:Antihypertensive effects of oral calcium supplementation may be mediated through the potent vasodilator CGRP. 813