title: Systemic and cellular calcium metabolism and hypertension.
abstract: The calcium status of humans with essential hypertension and genetic animal models of hypertension is characterized by low serum ionized calcium concentration, increased urinary calcium excretion, and increased parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentration. Calcitriol metabolism and bone mineralization are also altered in hypertension. These alterations in systemic calcium metabolism may be linked to factors responsible for the elevated blood pressure. Cytosolic free calcium tends to be increased in most cells that have been studied from hypertensive humans and animals. Changes in cellular calcium metabolism may be partly mediated by calcium-regulating hormones that tend to be elevated in essential hypertension such as PTH and calcitriol. Administration of supplemental dietary calcium tends to suppress PTH, calcitriol, and intracellular free calcium. Further research is need concerning the observed association among systemic markers of calcium metabolism, cellular calcium metabolism, and arterial blood pressure regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: E W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002136:Calcium, Dietary / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002136:Calcium, Dietary; D002118:Calcium