Neprilysin: A Potential Therapeutic Target of Arterial Hypertension?

ABSTRACT: Arterial hypertension is the most prevalent chronic disease in the adult population of developed countries and it constitutes a significant risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease, contributing to the emergence of many comorbidities, among which heart failure excels, a clinical syndrome that nowadays represents a major health problem with uncountable hospitalizations and the indolent course of which progressively worsens until quality of life decreases and lastly death occurs prematurely. In the light of this growing menace, each day more efforts are invested in the field of cardiovascular pharmacology, searching for new therapeutic options that allow us to modulate the physiological systems that appear among these pathologies. Therefore, in the later years, the study of n

SUBMITTER: Salazar J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7062041 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature