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Hypothesis: Uric acid, nephron number, and the pathogenesis of essential hypertension
- Title
- Hypothesis: Uric acid, nephron number, and the pathogenesis of essential hypertension
- Authors
- Feig, DI; Nakagawa, T; Karumanchi, SA; Oliver, WJ; Kang, DH; Finch, J; Johnson, RJ
- Ewha Authors
- 강덕희
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 강덕희
- Issue Date
- 2004
- Journal Title
- KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
- ISSN
- 0085-2538
- Citation
- KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 281 - 287
- Keywords
- essential hypertension; children; endothelium; clinical trial
- Publisher
- BLACKWELL PUBLISHING INC
- Indexed
- SCI; SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Background. Essential hypertension affects more than 25% of the world's population. Genetic, physiologic, and epidemiologic studies provide clues to its origins, but a clear understanding has been elusive. Recent experimental and clinical studies have implicated uric acid in the onset of essential hypertension. Methods. In a retrospective chart review, we identified 95 children with confirmed, new onset hypertension, and evaluated the cause of hypertension and parental history of hypertension, birth weight, and serum uric acid. In an open-label, cross-over trial we treated 5 children with confirmed essential hypertension with allopurinol as single treatment agent, and screened for change in blood pressure by casual and ambulatory methods. In tissue culture experiments, we evaluated the effect of uric acid on glomerular endothelial cell function. Results. Elevation of serum uric acid is related to the onset of essential hypertension in children, reduced birth weight, and endothelial dysfunction. Normalization of uric acid appears to ameliorate new onset essential hypertension. Conclusion. These findings, combined with animal model data, support the hypothesis that uric acid has a key role in the pathogenesis of early onset essential hypertension, and may unify some of the disparate theories of the origins of essential hypertension.
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00729.x
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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