DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLOOD-PRESSURE AND BLOOD-VISCOSITY IN NORMAL AND HYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS - ROLE OF FIBRINOGEN AND CONCENTRATION
DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLOOD-PRESSURE AND BLOOD-VISCOSITY IN NORMAL AND HYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS - ROLE OF FIBRINOGEN AND CONCENTRATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0002-9343(81)90827-5
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
LARAGH, JH
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作者:
LETCHER, RL;CHIEN, S;LARAGH, JH
Blood pressure and components of blood viscosity were measured in 49 normal subjects and in 49 untreated patients with essential hypertension. Blood viscosity values measured at 6 different shear rates were significantly correlated with blood pressure (r = 0.432-0.505, P < 0.001). Blood viscosity was higher in hypertensive patients. This was due to higher plasma viscosity (1.29 .+-. 0.08 vs. 1.24 .+-. 0.05 centipoise (cP), P < 0.001) and increased hematocrit values (44.4 .+-. 4 vs. 41.5 .+-. 3%, P < 0.005). When blood viscosity was evaluated in subgroups of normal and hypertensive subjects with matched hematocrit values, it remained higher in the hypertensive patients. The relationship between blood pressure and viscosity was still significant. Regardless of the hematocrit value, fibrinogen levels were elevated in hypertensive patients (P < 0.006) and, in association with the increased globulin concentration, fibrinogen was largely responsible for the increased plasma viscosity in hypertensive patients. Since the viscosity of defibrinated blood was similar in normal and hypertensive subjects with matched hematocrit values, the elevated fibrinogen level affected whole blood viscosity. Defibrinated blood viscosity and arterial pressures were not correlated. A direct correlation between blood pressure and blood viscosity was demonstrated among normotensive and hypertensive subjects. This relationship is, in part, due to the rheologic effects of an elevated fibrinogen level and to an increased hematocrit value. The basis for hyperfibrinogenemia in hypertensive patients is unclear.