Laboratory Distinction between Essential and Secondary Hypertension by Measurement of Erythrocyte Cation Fluxes
- 3 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 302 (14), 769-771
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198004033021402
Abstract
An abnormally low sodium-potassium net flux ratio in erythrocytes was recently described in human essential hypertension. We have confirmed this finding in 65 patients with essential hypertension who were compared with 33 normotensive controls born of normotensive parents.Keywords
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