Aldosterone is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy in hemodialysis patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients with chronic kidney disease present a higher degree of left ventricular hypertrophy than expected for hypertension levels. In chronic kidney disease the plot between the quotient extracellular water/total body water and aldosterone is shifted up and to the right. There are few studies that verified the role of aldosterone in cardiac remodeling in this set of patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between serum aldosterone and left ventricular mass index in patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis.

Methods

The patients were submitted to clinical and laboratory evaluation, bioelectrical impedance, echocardiography and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. The 27 patients included were divided into two groups according t

SUBMITTER: Feniman De Stefano GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933569 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature