Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
Pivot Concepts:   Target Concepts:
Query: UMLS:C0085580 (essential hypertension)
 14,686 document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)

M, G, and A immunoglobulins as well as C3 and C4 complement fractions were determined in 20 patients with essential hypertension: all the values were in the normal range. Nearly half of the patients had an abnormally high value of circulating immune complexes as determined with Clq binding assay and/or with CIC test. The rise of circulating immune complexes is not related to the stage of arterial hypertension.
 ...
PMID:[Immunological parameters in subjects with essential arterial hypertension. II. Serological observations]. 698 21

The authors examined 150 patients with pronounced arterial hypertension: 73 with essential hypertension, 42 with chronic glomerulonephritis, 26 with chronic pyelonephritis and 10 with diabetic glomerulosclerosis. In addition to conventional tests, measurements were made of renin activity, levels of plasma aldosterone and hydrocortisone, IgA, IgG, IgM, CIC. A significant rise in concentrations of aldosterone, hydrocortisone against a significant fall in those of plasma renin were registered in all the patients irrespective of the disease. Significant differences between the groups by the renin profile, aldosterone and hydrocortisone levels were absent. It is suggested that changes in the hormonal spectrum and immunological indices are independent of renal affections in hypertension, while involvement of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in hypertension stabilization has no nosological specificity. The pattern of the immunity shifts evidences for their important pathogenetic role in maintenance and progression of arterial hypertension.
 ...
PMID:[Changes of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and immunologic parameters in essential and symptomatic arterial hypertension]. 814 96