Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Leffert is managing partner at North Texas Endocrine Center, a past president of the American Association of ...

What is Conn’s Syndrome / Primary Hyperaldosteronism? The term "primary hyperaldosteronism" is used to describe Conn’s syndrome and other associated conditions involving pathological lesions that ...

The aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) has gained popularity as a screening test for primary hyperaldosteronism, a probably underdiagnosed cause of hypertension. However, studies have yielded varying ...

A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), in collaboration with researchers at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human ...

Primary hyperaldosteronism -- a condition in which too much of the hormone aldosterone1 is produced by the adrenal glands and can lead to high blood pressure (hypertension) and lower levels of ...

A new mechanism identified explains the development of hyperaldosteronism and also aids in drug discovery for treating secondary hypertension, reveals a new study. Hyperaldosteronism, a condition in ...

Although aldosterone has an essential role in controlling electrolyte and body fluid homeostasis, aldosterone also exerts certain pathological effects on the kidney. Several previous studies have ...

In addition to the lateralization index, the presence of adrenal nodules and contralateral suppression improved diagnostic accuracy of surgically curable aldosteronism. Consideration of contralateral ...

Other recent outcome studies document that resistant hypertension is not rare. In the Controlled ONset Verapamil INvestigation of Cardiovascular End Points trial (CONVINCE), [2] more than 16,600 ...