Resistant hypertension: detection, evaluation, and management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

RM Carey, DA Calhoun, GL Bakris, RD Brook… - …, 2018 - ahajournals.org
Resistant hypertension (RH) is defined as above-goal elevated blood pressure (BP) in a
patient despite the concurrent use of 3 antihypertensive drug classes, commonly including a …

Genomics of hypertension: the road to precision medicine

S Padmanabhan, AF Dominiczak - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The known genetic architecture of blood pressure now comprises> 30 genes, with rare
variants resulting in monogenic forms of hypertension or hypotension and> 1,477 common …

Salt sensitivity of blood pressure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

F Elijovich, MH Weinberger, CAM Anderson… - …, 2016 - ahajournals.org
Hypertension is available at http://hyper. ahajournals. org DOI: 10.1161/HYP.
0000000000000047 e8 Hypertension September 2016 distributed trait. Therefore, defining …

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

GB Ehret, T Ferreira, DI Chasman, AU Jackson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ
damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 …

Genome-wide association analyses using electronic health records identify new loci influencing blood pressure variation

TJ Hoffmann, GB Ehret, P Nandakumar, D Ranatunga… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Longitudinal electronic health records on 99,785 Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult
Health and Aging (GERA) cohort individuals provided 1,342,814 systolic and diastolic blood …

Uromodulin: from physiology to rare and complex kidney disorders

O Devuyst, E Olinger, L Rampoldi - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2017 - nature.com
Uromodulin (also known as Tamm-Horsfall protein) is exclusively produced in the kidney
and is the most abundant protein in normal urine. The function of uromodulin remains …

Concept of extremes in vascular aging: from early vascular aging to supernormal vascular aging

S Laurent, P Boutouyrie, PG Cunha, P Lacolley… - …, 2019 - ahajournals.org
Laurent et al Early, Normal, and Supernormal Vascular Aging 219 normally defined by the
absence of variables linked to the metabolic syndrome. 21, 22 An alternative way to define …

Genetic and molecular aspects of hypertension

S Padmanabhan, M Caulfield… - Circulation research, 2015 - ahajournals.org
Until recently, significant advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of blood
pressure regulation arose from studies of monogenic forms of hypertension and …

Hypertension and kidneys: unraveling complex molecular mechanisms underlying hypertensive renal damage

S Mennuni, S Rubattu, G Pierelli, G Tocci… - Journal of human …, 2014 - nature.com
Kidney damage represents a frequent event in the course of hypertension, ranging from a
benign to a malignant form of nephropathy depending on several factors, that is, individual …

Common noncoding UMOD gene variants induce salt-sensitive hypertension and kidney damage by increasing uromodulin expression

M Trudu, S Janas, C Lanzani, H Debaix, C Schaeffer… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are complex traits representing major
global health problems,. Multiple genome-wide association studies have identified common …