The ratio of aldosterone to renin in plasma is a reliable indicator of primary hypoaldosteronism in newborns and infants, say researchers. Using the aldosterone/renin ratio in infants, as is done in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Yang and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of female offspring from women who participated in ...

San Francisco — All individuals with hypertension should be screened for primary aldosteronism (PA), according to a new clinical practice guideline from the Endocrine Society. The recommendation is to ...

Current treatment options for primary aldosteronism are limited to surgery or mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists when surgery isn't an option. In a phase IIa trial, baxdrostat resolved or reduced ...

Aldosterone suppression testing is suggested where screening results indicate an intermediate probability for lateralizing PA and patients wish to pursue eligibility for surgical therapy. HealthDay ...

Roughly 16%-22% of patients with hypertension appeared to have primary aldosteronism as the likely major cause of their elevated blood pressure, in an analysis of about 1,000 Americans, which is a ...

Despite the availability of effective antihypertensive therapies, global blood pressure control rates remain unacceptably low. Contributing factors, such as low treatment adherence, therapeutic ...

Current screening guidelines may not capture all cases of hyperaldosteronism among patients with ESKD. Hyperaldosteronism occurs in a higher proportion of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) ...