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(Hypertension. 2002;39:1064.)
© 2002 American Heart Association, Inc.

Scientific Contributions

Urinary Protein and Essential Hypertension in Black and in White People

Rajani Chelliah; Giuseppe A. Sagnella; Nirmala D. Markandu; Graham A. MacGregor

From the Blood Pressure Unit, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, UK.

Correspondence to Prof G.A. Sagnella, Blood Pressure Unit, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK. E-mail g.sagnella{at}sghms.ac.uk

Abstract— The objectives of this work were to examine the association between urinary protein and blood pressure and to compare the pattern of urinary protein excretion with essential hypertension in people of European origin (whites) and in people of African or African-Caribbean origin (blacks) living in southwest London, United Kingdom. In the groups as a whole, there were no significant differences in total urinary protein excretion between blacks and whites (geometric means [95% CI]: 94.0 [85.9 to 102.9] mg/24h for the blacks [n=151] and 102.1 [96.1 to 108.4] mg/24h for the whites [n= 219]). There were also no significant differences between blacks and whites in urinary albumin (6.5 [4.9 to 8.5] mg/24h for the blacks [n=97] and 7.1 [5.6 to 9.0] mg/24h for the whites [n=123]). In both groups, those with essential hypertension displayed a significantly raised urinary protein excretion (1.21-fold higher for the blacks and 1.19-fold higher for the whites) and albumin excretion (1.69-fold higher for the blacks and 2.40-fold higher for the whites). Urinary transferrin excretion measured in a subgroup of 67 subjects was also raised in those with essential hypertension (3.22-fold higher in the blacks and 2.76-fold higher in the whites). Examination of urinary proteins by SDS-PAGE did not identify any pattern consistent with a reduction in renal tubular protein reabsorption in those with essential hypertension. These results suggest that the increase in protein excretion in essential hypertension could be due, at least in part, to an increase in glomerular protein ultrafiltration.

Key Words: ethnicity • proteinuria • albuminuria • renal disease • cardiovascular diseases • hypertension, essential

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