Willingness to pay for a reduction in the mortality risk after a myocardial infarction: an aplication of the contingent valuation method to the case of eplerenone [PDF]
Background: In order to allocate health care resources more efficiently it is necessary to relate health improvements provided by new medicines with their cost.
Jaime Fernández de Bobadilla +2 more
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Emerging methods for subtype differentiation in primary aldosteronism
Abstract Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a common cause of hypertension. Compared to patients with essential hypertension, untreated PA is associated with a two‐ to fourfold greater risk of cardiovascular disease, renal failure, and death. PA is caused by increased secretion of aldosterone from one adrenal gland in 30% of the patients and both adrenal ...
Oskar Ragnarsson +5 more
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Treatment of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90240/1/phco.31.3.312 ...
Barnes, Megan M. +4 more
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Background/Aims: Prolonged elevation of serum aldosterone leads to renal fibrosis. Inflammation also plays a role in the pathogenesis of renal disease.
Hui Chen +5 more
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Endothelial Dysfunction in Human Essential Hypertension [PDF]
Although the endothelium has a number of important functions, the term endothelial dysfunction is commonly used to describe impairment in its vasodilatory capacity.
Akiyama +137 more
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Oxidative damages in tubular epithelial cells in IgA nephropathy: role of crosstalk between angiotensin II and aldosterone [PDF]
Background Inhibition of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) slows down the progression of chronic renal diseases (CKD) including IgA nephropathy (IgAN). Herein, we studied the pathogenetic roles of aldosterone (Aldo) in IgAN.
Joseph CK Leung +6 more
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Database Analysis of Eplerenone Use in Japanese Hypertensive Patients in Clinical Practice
Eplerenone, a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA), is available in Japan, but details of its use in clinical settings have not been thoroughly investigated.
Shoko Takahashi +4 more
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Rationale and design of MinerAlocorticoid Receptor antagonist Tolerability Study‐Heart Failure (ARTS‐HF): a randomized study of finerenone vs. eplerenone in patients who have worsening chronic heart failure with diabetes and/or chronic kidney disease [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/110733/1/ejhf218 ...
Albert +39 more
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Epidermal mineralocorticoid receptor plays beneficial and adverse effects in skin and mediates glucocorticoid responses [PDF]
10 páginas, 6 figuras. Contiene material suplementarioGlucocorticoids (GCs) regulate skin homeostasis and combat cutaneous inflammatory diseases; however, adverse effects of chronic GC treatments limit their therapeutic use.
Boix, Julia +4 more
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Background Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). We recently showed in a 12-month double-blind randomized controlled trial that adding eplerenone to background medical therapy was ...
Subha V. Raman +8 more
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