scholarly journals Active kallikrein response to changes in sodium-chloride intake in essential hypertensive patients.

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Ferri ◽  
C Bellini ◽  
A Carlomagno ◽  
G Desideri ◽  
A Santucci

To evaluate the behavior of active kallikrein excretion in salt-sensitive and salt-resistant hypertensive patients during changes in sodium-chloride (NaCl) intake, 61 male, nonobese, nondiabetic outpatients affected by uncomplicated essential hypertension were given a diet that contained 140 mmol NaCl per day for 2 wk. Patients then received either a low- (20 mmol NaCl/day) or a high- (320 mmol NaCl/day) sodium diet for 2 wk, according to a randomized, double-blind, cross-over protocol. Hypertensive patients were classified as salt sensitive when their diastolic blood pressure rose by at least 10 mm Hg after the high-sodium diet, and decreased by at least 10 mm Hg after the low-sodium diet, considering as baseline blood pressure values those that were taken at the end of the 140 mmol NaCl/day intake period. The remaining patients were classified as salt resistant or, when diastolic blood pressure increased by 10 mm Hg or more after low-sodium intake, as counter-regulating. Twenty-three patients were therefore classified as salt sensitive, 28 as salt resistant, and 10 as counter-regulating. The baseline active kallikrein excretion was significantly lower (P < 0.0001) in salt-sensitive (0.62 +/- 0.31 U/24 h) patients than in salt-resistant (1.39 +/- 0.44 U/24 h) and counter-regulating patients (1.27 +/- 0.38 U/24 h). Surprisingly, the kallikrein response to changes in sodium intake was similar in all subgroups, although enzyme excretion was always at the lowest level in salt-sensitive hypertensive patients. This latter group also showed the highest plasma atrial natriuretic peptide levels (28.2 +/- 8.5 fmol/mL, P < 0.0001 versus salt-resistant and counter-regulating patients), and the greatest peptide increment with sodium load (P < 0.0001 versus salt-resistant and counter-regulating patients). Counter-regulating patients showed the steepest increase in plasma renin activity (from 0.24 +/- 0.18 to 0.83 +/- 0.21 ng/L per s, P < 0.001) and decrease of plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (from 26.1 +/- 6.3 to 6.8 +/- 3.1 fmol/mL, P < 0.001) when switched from a high to a low-sodium intake. In conclusion, salt-sensitive hypertensive patients excrete less active kallikrein than do salt-resistant and counter-regulating patients, but maintain a normal enzyme response to changes in dietary sodium intake. The exaggerated response of atrial natriuretic peptide to high-sodium intake that was observed in the same patients could be compensating for an impaired renal capability to excrete a sodium load.

1987 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe A. Sagnella ◽  
Nirmala D. Markandu ◽  
Angela C. Shore ◽  
Mary L. Forsling ◽  
Graham A. MacGregor

1. Plasma levels of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (IrANP), plasma renin activity, aldosterone and vasopressin were measured in 11 normotensive subjects on a low (10 mmol/day), a normal (150 mmol/day) and a high (350 mmol/day) sodium intake. 2. Plasma levels of IrANP increased significantly with increasing dietary sodium intake with levels (means ± sd) of 3.9 ± 2.1 pg/ml on the fifth day of the low sodium diet, 6.1 ± 3.4 pg/ml on the fifth day of the normal sodium diet and 11.4 ± 4.6 pg/ml on the fifth day of the high sodium diet. 3. Plasma renin activity and aldosterone decreased significantly with increasing sodium intake whereas plasma vasopressin was highest on the high sodium intake. 4. These results suggest that the atrial peptides may be a new and important component in the overall control of sodium and water balance during increased sodium intake.


1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislas Czekalski ◽  
Catherine Michel ◽  
Jean-Claude Dussaule ◽  
Philippe Touraine ◽  
Francoise Mignon ◽  
...  

1. In order to examine the potential role of endogenous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in modulating the increased sodium excretion per nephron in chronic renal failure, we studied healthy subjects with normal renal function (group I) and patients with moderate (group II) or severe chronic renal failure (group III) before, during and after administration of an intravenous sodium load. All subjects had been on a controlled diet containing 120 mmol of sodium per day for 5 days before the study. 2. Under basal conditions, plasma ANP and fractional excretion of sodium (FENa) were highest in group III. Both parameters increased in response to the sodium load in the three groups studied (P < 0.001). Changes with time differed from group to group (P < 0.05), the more marked response for both parameters being observed in group III. After adjustment with respect to plasma ANP (analysis of covariance), FENa was no longer modified in response to the sodium load, whereas adjustment of FENa with respect to mean blood pressure was without consequence on the significance of its change with time. This demonstrates that plasma ANP, but not mean blood pressure, represents the main factor producing variation in FENa during and after the sodium load. 3. These results suggest an important role for plasma ANP in promoting adaptation of short-term sodium excretion in response to an acute sodium load in patients with chronic renal failure who ingest a normal sodium intake.


2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Agustina Pungki Astuti ◽  
Didit Damayanti ◽  
Iskari Ngadiarti

The low sodium and Diet Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) are diets for reducing high blood pressure. This study aimed to analyze the effect of nutrition counseling on the DASH diet compared to low sodium diet on blood pressure in hypertensive patients. The study design was an experimental study that randomly allocated 34 respondents to DASH diet and 35 respondents to low sodium diet. The ages of respondents were 43 to 76 years and women were 74.3 percent. Nutrition counseling was conducted by researchers to respondents who visited health center or Posbindu Larangan Utara. Nutritional counseling was conducted for an average of 20 minutes using existing brochures. Low sodium diet emphasizes reducing sodium intake while DASH diet emphasis more on consuming lots of vegetables, fruit, nuts and low-fat products. Variables collected were the characteristics of respondent, disease, drugs taken and nutritional status, while blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer, food intake including sodium were measured before and 2 weeks after nutritional counseling. Results showed that there was a significant difference in diastolic blood pressure after patients were given DASH diet compared to low sodium diet (p 0.05) and there was a significant difference in delta of systolic and diastolic reduction in DASH diet compared to low sodium diet. Test also showed a significant reduction in systolic, diastolic blood pressure and sodium intake (p 0.001) in both diet groups after receiving counseling. It concluded that DASH diet can be recommended to decrease blood pressure in hypertensive patients with consider nutritional status. ABSTRAK  Diet Rendah Garam (RG) dan Diet Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) adalah diet untuk menurunkan tekanan darah tinggi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa pengaruh konseling gizi diet DASH dibandingkan diet RG terhadap tekanan darah pasien hipertensi. Rancangan penelitian adalah eksperimen yang secara acak mengalokasi diet DASH kepada 34 orang dan diet RG kepada 35 orang responden. Usia responden antara 43 hingga 76 tahun dan sebagian besar perempuan (74,3%). Konseling gizi dilakukan oleh tim peneliti kepada pasien hipertensi yang memeriksakan diri ke puskesmas atau posbindu Larangan Utara. Konseling gizi dilakukan rata-rata 20 menit menggunakan brosur yang sudah ada. Diet RG menekankan pengurangan asupan natrium sedangkan diet DASH lebih menekankan ke banyak konsumsi sayur, buah, kacang-kacangan dan produk rendah lemak. Variabel yang dikumpulkan adalah karakteristik responden, penyakit dan obat yang diminum serta status gizi sedangkan tekanan darah menggunakan sfigmomanometer, asupan makanan, zat gizi termasuk natrium diukur sebelum dan 2 minggu setelah konseling gizi dilakukan. Hasil menunjukkan adanya perbedaan yang bermakna pada tekanan darah diastolik setelah pasien diberi diet DASH dibandingkan dengan pasien yang diberi diet RG (p0,05) dan terdapat perbedaan delta penurunan sistolik dan diastolik bermakna pada diet DASH dibanding diet RG. Analisa juga menunjukkan adanya penurunan tekanan darah sistolik, diastolik dan asupan natrium  yang bermakna (p0.001) pada kedua kelompok diet setelah mendapat konseling diet DASH dan diet RG. Disimpulkan diet DASH dapat direkomendasikan untuk membantu menurunkan tekanan darah pada pasien hipertensi dengan memperhatikan status gizi. Kata kunci: hipertensi, tekanan darah, diet rendah garam, diet DASH


2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
P.C. Papadopoulos ◽  
B. Kokkas ◽  
P. Kotridis ◽  
G. Aidonidis ◽  
V. Koutsimanis ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Sagnella ◽  
N. D. Markandu ◽  
M. G. Buckley ◽  
D. R. J. Singer ◽  
G. A. MacGregor

1. The present study was designed to investigate the relationships between circulating atrial natriuretic peptide, plasma and urinary cyclic GMP and sodium excretion under basal conditions and in response to changes in dietary sodium intake. 2. Measurements of plasma atrial natriuretic peptide and plasma and urinary (24 h collections) cyclic GMP, sodium and creatinine were made in (i) 30 normotensive subjects on their normal sodium intake and (ii) 12 subjects on the 5th day of a low and on the 5th day of a high sodium intake. 3. Plasma cyclic GMP, urinary cyclic GMP and fractional excretion of cyclic GMP in 30 normotensive subjects on their normal sodium intake were (means ± SEM) 5.4 ± 0.5 pmol/ml, 434.5 ± 31.8 pmol/min and 86.9 ± 8.6%, respectively. There were significant correlations between urinary cyclic GMP and its corresponding filtered load (r = 0.55) and between the renal clearance of cyclic GMP and that of creatinine (r = 0.44), but there were no significant associations between circulating atrial natriuretic peptide and plasma cyclic GMP or the fractional excretion of cyclic GMP or between urinary sodium and the fractional excretion of cyclic GMP. 5. Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide was significantly raised on the 5th day of the high sodium intake compared with the low sodium intake (10.6 ± 1.6 versus 4.2 ± 0.9 pg/ml; P <0.05). Similarly, there were increases in urinary cyclic GMP excretion (692.3 ± 43.4 versus 427.4 ± 41.9 pmol/min, P <0.05), but there were no significant differences in the fractional excretion of cyclic GMP. 6. As neither plasma nor urinary cyclic GMP was strongly associated with circulating levels of atrial natriuretic peptide, the present study suggests that other factors may be more important than circulating atrial natriuretic peptide as determinants of extracellular cyclic GMP.


1990 ◽  
Vol 258 (4) ◽  
pp. F916-F926 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Seymour ◽  
J. N. Swerdel ◽  
S. A. Fennell ◽  
V. J. Kratunis ◽  
M. M. Asaad

Sodium and fluid intake were precisely regulated by 3 days of infusion of 0.07, 0.35, or 3.5 mu eq Na/min at rates of 25, 50, or 100 microliters/min in nine groups of conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). At each level of sodium and volume intake, the acute depressor and renal responses to three doses of exogenous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)-(99-126) were determined in conscious, unrestrained SHR. The natriuretic responses to the highest dose of ANP-(99-126) (150 pmol/min) were independent of the rate of fluid infusion but were highly dependent on the sodium intake. The maximal increases in sodium excretion averaged 0.9 +/- 0.5 (253%), 2.6 +/- 0.5 (302%), and 15.4 +/- 2.1 mu eq.kg-1.min-1 (577%) in SHR maintained on 0.07, 0.35, and 3.5 mu eq Na/min, respectively. In addition, the diuretic but not the depressor responses to ANP-(99-126) were dependent on the sodium intake and were unrelated to the rate of fluid delivery. In separate groups of SHR, 3 days of infusions of 3.5 mu eq Na/min at 25 and 100 microliters/min significantly elevated plasma ANP from 89 +/- 16 to 200 +/- 60 and 159 +/- 24 fmol/ml, respectively. In conclusion, high sodium intake enhanced the renal responses to exogenous ANP-(99-126) despite increases in endogenous peptide concentrations in conscious SHR.


1996 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro De La Sierra ◽  
María Del Mar Lluch ◽  
Antonio Coca ◽  
María Teresa Aguilera ◽  
Vicente Giner ◽  
...  

1. The aim of the study was to detect differences between salt-sensitive and salt-resistant hypertensive patients in the response of the renin—aldosterone axis, plasma noradrenaline and atrial natriuretic peptide to high salt intake. 2. Fifty essential hypertensive patients followed 2 weeks of a standard diet with 20 mmol of NaCl daily, supplemented by placebo tablets for the first 7 days and by NaCl tablets for the last 7 days, in a single-blind fashion. Salt sensitivity was defined as a significant rise (P < 0.05) in 24 h mean blood pressure obtained by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring from the low- to the high-salt period. Biochemical and hormonal measurements were performed on the last day of both periods. 3. Twenty-two (44%) patients fulfilled criteria of salt-sensitive hypertension, whereas the remaining 28 (56%) were considered salt-resistant. High salt intake promoted a significant decrease (P < 0.05) in plasma creatinine, potassium, glucose, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, triacylglycerols, uric acid and plasma renin activity, and a significant increase in plasma atrial natriuretic peptide and 24 h urinary calcium excretion. The direction of these changes did not differ between salt-sensitive and salt-resistant patients. Salt-resistant hypertensive patients exhibited a significant decrease in plasma aldosterone induced by high salt intake (from 446 ∓ 35 to 226 ± 35 pmol/l; P < 0.001), whereas this parameter was not significantly modified in salt-sensitive patients (from 485 ± 76 to 364 ± 83 pmol/l; P not significant). Salt-sensitive patients showed an increase in plasma noradrenaline after high salt intake (from 1.15 ± 0.11 to 1.56 ± 0.14 nmol/l; P < 0.05), whereas salt-resistant patients presented a decrease in this parameter (from 1.48 ± 0.08 to 1.12 ± 0.08 nmol/l; P < 0.05). The change in plasma noradrenaline was directly correlated with the change in mean blood pressure induced by high salt intake (r = 0.479; P = 0.003). 4. We conclude that the increase in blood pressure induced by high salt intake in salt-sensitive patients is associated with a stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and a blunted decrease in plasma aldosterone. Conversely, changes in renal function, electrolyte excretion and plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide induced by high salt intake seem to be similar in both salt-sensitive and salt-resistant patients.


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