title: Potassium and blood pressure.
abstract: The relationships between serum potassium and urinary excretion of potassium and blood pressure were determined in an unmedicated adult population with a wide range of blood pressure (mean arterial blood pressure 100-130 mm Hg, n = 71). Inverse correlations between both serum potassium concentration and urinary excretion of potassium and standing (but not supine) mean blood pressure were seen (r = -0.41, p less than 0.005 and r = -0.33, p less than 0.01 respectively). These relationships persisted also when the influences of age, sex, obesity and kidney function were taken into account in a multiple regression analysis. The present observation is in accordance with previous reports of an association between potassium metabolism and blood pressure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lithell
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pollare
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ljunghall
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011187:Posture / Q000502:physiology; D011188:Potassium / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000652:urine
chemical_list: D011188:Potassium