Is your blood pressure still high, despite medication and a healthy lifestyle? Find out what a renin test can tell you.

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered how certain cells have the amazing ability to transform ...

BACKGROUND: Primary aldosteronism (PA), an overt form of renin-independent aldosterone production, leads to a disproportionately high rate of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs). Mounting ...

Other identifiable forms of hypertension featuring elevated levels of plasma renin include the malignant phase of essential hypertension, renal parenchymal disease, and possibly some patients with ...

Interruption or blocking of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone systems can reverse cardiac fibrosis and hypertensive vascular remodeling, and improve hypertensive left-ventricular hypertrophy. Local ...

The effects of renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system blockers on angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 levels and activity in humans are uncertain. The authors hypothesize that ACE2 may be beneficial ...

Renin elevations in the subjects with chronic uremia were noted in 2 out of 11 subjects studied. Four transplant recipients were observed to have elevated plasma renin levels during their ...

But people with high renin levels responded better to medicines such as ACE inhibitors that target an artery-narrowing substance spurred by the renin, Alderman reported.

High cholesterol and high blood pressure often go hand-in-hand and can gang up on heart health, but you can rein in both sets of numbers with the same steps.

Elevated renin -- which is an enzyme secreted by the juxtaglomerular apparatus of the kidney and linked with aldosterone -- is one of the risk factors.

On the other hand, high renin essential hypertension, the vasoconstrictor-predominant group, appears more frequently among younger subjects and is often associated with an increased heart rate.