[Levels of catecholamines and activity of the renin-aldosterone system in women with hypertension in the period before and after menopause].
The examinations were carried out for 93 selected women divided into premenopausal group and the group in the early stage of postmenopausal period. Each of these groups was subdivided into two subgroups with normal blood pressure and arterial hypertension. The catecholamine level were determined fluorimetrically as per Euler and Lishajko, and the level of dopamine in plasma using Nagatsu's method. Angiotensin I and aldosterone concentration in serum was determined by radioimmunoassay using RIA set of Sorin. Free catecholamine excretion with urine for women with arterial hypertension in the premenopausal period is highly statistically (p < 0.001), and in the postmenopausal period only epinephrine is statistically higher (p < 0.01), whereas the dopamine level in plasma is smaller, statistically significant only in premenopausal period (p < 0.05). Also for women with the arterial hypertension compared with the control group the angiotensin I and aldosterone concentration in serum is statistically smaller.
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Kliniki Ginekologii Instytutu Ginekologii i Połoznictwa, Szczecinie.
Wasilewska
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D002395:Catecholamines / Q000097:blood*; D002979:Climacteric / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood*; D008593:Menopause / Q000097:blood*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000502:physiology*
D002395:Catecholamines
Stezenie katecholamin i aktywność układu reninowo-aldosteronowego u kobiet z nadciśnieniem tetniczym w okresie przed-i pomenopauzalnym.