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It is the plasma renin activity level that counts, not stoichiometry.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Sealey, Jean E. Laragh, John H. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | To the Editor: We disagree with Danser et al1 that, in patients taking the renin inhibitor aliskiren, “it is the stoichiometry that counts, not the rise in renin.” In fact, plasma renin activity (PRA) is a more explicit indicator than stoichiometry. A PRA fall during aliskiren means that renal renin secretion did not increase by much. A PRA rise means that the increase in renal renin secretion was large enough to overwhelm the aliskiren blockade of PRA. It is that simple. … |
| Starting Page | 248 |
| Ending Page | 258 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.116319 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/hypertensionaha/52/2/e20.full.pdf?download=true |
| PubMed reference number | 18606895 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.116319 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 52 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Journal | Hypertension |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |