Open AccessCirculating Aldosterone Levels and Disease Severity in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Author(s) -
Zeenat Safdar,
Aishwarya Thakur,
Supriya Singh,
Yingqun Ji,
Danielle Guffey,
Charles G. Minard,
Mark L. Entman
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of pulmonary and respiratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2161-105X
DOI - 10.4172/2161-105x.1000295
Subject(s) - aldosterone , medicine , cardiology , blood pressure , percentile , eplerenone , mineralocorticoid receptor , proportional hazards model , hemodynamics , heart failure , brain natriuretic peptide , statistics , mathematics
It is not known whether aldosterone levels are associated with increased mortality in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The primary goal of this study was to determine whether circulating aldosterone levels predict severity of PAH in terms of hemodynamic characteristics and mortality.