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ReviewInternational journal of hypertension2013

Essential hypertension: an approach to its etiology and neurogenic pathophysiology.

Juan J Bolívar

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Review in International journal of hypertension, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Essential Hypertension and Oxidative Stress: Novel Future Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  15. 2023 update and perspectives.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2024
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  19. Hypertension Across a Woman's Life Cycle.Current hypertension reports · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Juan J BolívarDepartamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, DF, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Essential hypertension, a rise in blood pressure of undetermined cause, includes 90% of all hypertensive cases and is a highly important public health challenge that remains, however, a major modifiable cause of morbidity and mortality. This review emphasizes that, from an evolutionary point of view, we are adapted to ingest and excrete <1 g of sodium (2.5 g of salt) per day and that essential hypertension develops when the kidneys become unable to excrete the amount of sodium ingested, unless blood pressure is increased. The renal-mean arterial pressure set-point model is briefly described to explain that a shift of the pressure natriuresis relationship toward abnormally high pressure levels is a pathophysiological characteristic of essential hypertension. Evidence indicating that this anomaly in the pressure natriuresis relationship arises from a sympathetic nervous system dysfunction is briefly formulated, and the most widely accepted pathophysiologic proposal to explain the development of this sympathetic dysfunction is described, with commentaries about novel action mechanisms of some drugs currently used in essential hypertension treatment.

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PMID24386559
PMCPMC3872229

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