Relation between renin release and blood pressure response to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in hypertension.

This editorial has three goals: 1) to underscore the significance of the work by Imanishi and colleagues to clinical medicine and to basic science; 2) to integrate the present study into a conceptual framework by highlighting certain aspects of the biology of prostaglandins and; 3) to point out the relation of the study by Imanishi et al to earlier observations in both animals and humans