This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Folsom, A. R. Articles by Grimm, R. H. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Folsom, A. R. Articles by Grimm, R. H., Jr

Hypertension, Vol 8, 11-15, Copyright © 1986 by American Heart Association

ARTICLES

Serum calcium fractions in essential hypertensive and matched normotensive subjects

AR Folsom, CL Smith, RJ Prineas and RH Grimm Jr

Concentrations of serum total calcium and serum calcium fractions were compared between 28 hypertensive subjects and 28 race-sex-age-matched normotensive controls. Mean levels of serum total calcium were not different between the two groups. Hypertensive subjects had lower mean serum levels of ultrafilterable calcium (-0.32 mg/dl; p = 0.01), ionized calcium (-0.07 mg/dl; p = 0.09), and complexed calcium (-0.23 mg/dl; p = 0.04) and higher levels of protein-bound calcium (+0.36 mg/dl; p = 0.07). Estimated dietary calcium intake was similar in the two groups. These findings add to the evidence that essential hypertension is associated with perturbations in calcium metabolism.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				R. Jorde, J. Sundsfjord, P. Fitzgerald, and K. H. Bonaa Serum Calcium and Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diseases : The Tromso Study Hypertension, September 1, 1999; 34(3): 484 - 490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				D. A. McCARRON and C. D. MORRIS The Calcium Deficiency Hypothesis of Hypertension Ann Intern Med, December 1, 1987; 107(6): 919 - 922. [Abstract] [PDF]