Oxidative stress may explain how hypertension is maintained by normal levels of angiotensin II
It is well known that essential hypertension evolves in most patients with "near normal" levels of plasma renin activity. However, these levels appear to be responsible for the high levels of arterial pressure because they are normalized by the administration of angiotensin II converting i...
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| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2000-06-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2000000600006 |