Decrease in plasma noradrenaline levels following long-term treatment with prindolol in patients with essential hypertension

1976 ◽  
Vol 54 (22) ◽  
pp. 1095-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Brecht ◽  
F. Banthien ◽  
W. Schoeppe
1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Carlsson ◽  
S. J. Dencker ◽  
G. Grimby ◽  
J. H�ggendal ◽  
G. Johnsson

1976 ◽  
Vol 51 (s3) ◽  
pp. 485s-488s ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Brecht ◽  
F. Banthien ◽  
W. Ernst ◽  
W. Schoeppe

1. Plasma noradrenaline was measured in fiftynine patients with mild to severe essential hypertension and in fifteen normotensive control subjects under basal and orthostatic conditions. 2. In patients with essential hypertension mean plasma noradrenaline concentrations were significantly higher than in control subjects under basal and orthostatic conditions. 3. In patients with essential hypertension basal diastolic blood pressure correlated closely with the corresponding plasma noradrenaline concentrations. 4. Long-term treatment with prindolol of patients with essential hypertension led to a significant fall in diastolic and systolic blood pressure and heart rate and to a significant decrease in plasma noradrenaline concentrations under basal and orthostatic conditions. 5. The adrenergic response to upright posture, reflected by an increase in plasma noradrenaline, was not abolished by prindolol. 6. It is concluded that the anti-hypertensive effect of prindolol in patients with essential hypertension is at least partially mediated by a decrease of sympathetic nervous activity.


1978 ◽  
Vol 55 (s4) ◽  
pp. 97s-100s ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Franco-Morselli ◽  
M. Baudouin-Legros ◽  
P. Meyer

1. Plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline were measured in supine and upright positions in 27 essential hypertensive patients and in 12 age-matched control subjects. 2. Plasma adrenaline was markedly increased in a large proportion of patients, compared with control subjects, either in supine or in upright positions, whereas no significant differences were found in plasma noradrenaline. 3. Six hypertensive patients were chronically treated with β-adrenoreceptor-blocking agents (five with propranolol and one with pindolol). Plasma noradrenaline was not significantly changed in the supine position but was markedly increased on standing in four out of six patients. Plasma adrenaline was decreased in five out of six patients either in supine or upright positions. 4. These findings support the view that the adrenergic system participates in the mechanism of essential hypertension.


Author(s):  
M. Carnovali ◽  
C. Borgnino ◽  
E. Crespi ◽  
M. Panozzo ◽  
A. Missaglia ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 209 (S646) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
H. Løken ◽  
H. & Hebnes ◽  
K. Diakonissesykehus

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
pp. 199S-203S ◽  
Author(s):  
MM El-Mehairy ◽  
A Shaker ◽  
M Ramadan ◽  
S Hamza ◽  
SS Tadros

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 496-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. RICCIARDELLI ◽  
M. VOLPE ◽  
B. TRIMARCO ◽  
N. DE LUCA ◽  
A. CUOCOLO ◽  
...  

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