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Article: Study pinpoints link between sleep apnea, high blood pressure.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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2002 SEP 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A changing protein expression in the kidney offers new insight into the link between sleep apnea and high blood pressure.
Although scientists have known for more than a decade that sleep apnea and high blood pressure are related, they have been unable to pinpoint the connection.
Researchers at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, approached the problem through proteomics. In a yearlong study of laboratory rats, they found that changes in the expression of proteins regulating a potent natural vasodilator in the kidney mirrored changes in blood pressure of the kidney.
The process appears to play a ...