Immune Cells Involved with High Blood Pressure

[BillTre]

High blood pressure can affect health in many ways.

More than 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, which promotes heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage, dementia, and other ailments.

No one treatment can control it in all cases.
Treating immune cells may help control it.
Science mag news article here.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

It's fairly easy to give mice hypertension. Just regularly dose them with the hormone angiotensin II. But mixing a molecule called 2-HOBA into the animals' drinking water returns their blood pressure almost to normal, vascular biologist David Harrison of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues have found. Now, that observation could open an innovative approach to treating hypertension in people.

How well does angiotensin II treatment recapitulate real cases of high blood pressure. If most people have cases of high blood pressure caused by different factors than high angiotensin II levels, the population that would respond to such a treatment could be limited.