(Hypertension. 1998;32:820-824.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Importance of the Renin System in Determining Blood Pressure Fall With Salt Restriction in Black and White Hypertensives
From the Blood Pressure Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
Correspondence to Professor G.A. MacGregor, Blood Pressure Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK. E-mail g.macgregor{at}sghms.ac.uk
Abstract—Seventy-one white and 33 black patients with essential hypertension were studied while on a high sodium intake of 350 mmol/d for 5 days and low sodium intake of 10 mmol/d for 5 days. The fall in blood pressure on changing from the high sodium to the low sodium diet was 17/6 mm Hg in whites and 22/10 mm Hg in blacks. Compared with whites, black patients had a 7-mm Hg greater fall (P<0.05) in systolic blood pressure and 4-mm Hg greater fall (P=0.068) in diastolic blood pressure (adjusted for age and blood pressure on the normal diet) with similar changes in urinary sodium excretion. With sodium restriction, plasma renin activity rose from 0.65 to 3.03 ng · mL-1 · h-1 in whites, whereas in blacks it rose only from 0.3 to 1.28 ng · mL-1 · h-1 (P<0.001 between blacks and whites). From the high to the low salt diet, plasma angiotensin II increased by 31 pmol/L in whites and by 12 pmol/L in blacks (P<0.05 compared with whites), and plasma aldosterone rose by 499 pmol/L in whites and by 256 pmol/L in blacks (P<0.01). Significant inverse correlations were obtained for all patients between the fall in systolic blood pressure from the high to low salt diet and the rise in plasma renin activity and angiotensin II, as well as the absolute level on the low salt diet. These results demonstrate that the larger fall in blood pressure with a reduction in salt intake in blacks is due at least in part to a less responsive renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in blacks.
Key Words: renin-angiotensin system • blood pressure • sodium, dietary • blacks • whites
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