TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 11, Issue 8 (August 1998)
Original Contributions
Estradiol-17
reduces blood pressure and restores the normal amplitude of the circadian blood pressure rhythm in postmenopausal hypertension
Giuseppe Mercuro, Sandra Zoncu, Davide Piano, Isa Pilia, Adriana Lao, Gian Benedetto Melis and Angelo Cherchi
Am J Hypertens 11: 909-913; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00096-X
Nocturnal reduction of blood pressure and the antihypertensive response to a diuretic or angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor in obese hypertensive patients
Matthew R. Weir, Efrain Reisin, Bonita Falkner, Howard G. Hutchinson, Lisa Sha and Michael L. Tuck for the TROPHY Study Group
Am J Hypertens 11: 914-920; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00087-9
Participation of peripheral polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the oxidative stress and inflammation in patients with essential hypertension
Batya Kristal, Revital Shurtz-Swirski, Judith Chezar, Joseph Manaster, Rivka Levy, Galina Shapiro, Irith Weissman, ShaulM Shasha and Shifra Sela
Am J Hypertens 11: 921-928; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00099-5
Follow-up study of the use of antihypertensive drug treatment and of the population treated
E.F Boumendil and C Mugnier
Am J Hypertens 11: 929-934; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00097-1
Ethnic differences in red blood cell sodium/lithium countertransport and metabolic correlates of hypertension
Eliana Ragone, Pasquale Strazzullo, Alfonso Siani, Roberto Iacone, Luigina Russo, Andrea Sacchi, Paola Cipriano, Mario Mancini, Guangsheng Zhao, Xiao-yuan Yuan, Di-yuan Li and Lanshen Gong
Am J Hypertens 11: 935-941; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00098-3
Absence of linkage of the epithelial sodium channel to hypertension in black Caribbeans
Patricia B. Munroe, Sandra S. Strautnieks, Martin Farrall, Harold I. Daniel, Mary Lawson, Perry DeFreitas, Paul Fogarty, R.Mark Gardiner and Mark Caulfield
Am J Hypertens 11: 942-945; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00092-2
The impact of birth weight and gestational age on blood pressure in adult life
Annica Siewert-Delle and Susanne Ljungman
Am J Hypertens 11: 946-953; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00090-9
Osteopontin expression, tubulointerstitial disease, and essential hypertension
Susan E. Thomas, Donna Lombardi, Cecilia Giachelli, Adalbert Bohle and Richard J. Johnson
Am J Hypertens 11: 954-961; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00091-0
Effects of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor temocapril on insulin sensitivity and its effects on renal sodium handling and the pressor system in essential hypertensive patients
Yoshinori Miyazaki, Hideyuki Murakami, Akifumi Hirata, Masatada Fukuoka, Atsushi Masuda, Nobuyuki Ura and Kazuaki Shimamoto
Am J Hypertens 11: 962-970; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00085-5
Intranasal angiotensin II directly influences central nervous regulation of blood pressure
Inge Derad, Karen Willeke, Reinhard Pietrowsky, Jan Born and Horst L. Fehm
Am J Hypertens 11: 971-977; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00095-8
Validation of an oscillometric electronic sphygmomanometer in an obstetric population
Kenneth Kwek, Yvonne G.S. Chan, Kok Hian Tan and George S.H. Yeo
Am J Hypertens 11: 978-982; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00093-4
Role of plasma and urinary endothelin-1 in early diabetic and hypertensive nephropathy
Giancarlo De Mattia, Maria Cassone-Faldetta, Cesare Bellini, Maria C. Bravi, Oriana Laurenti, Roberta Baldoncini, Anna Santucci and Claudio Ferri
Am J Hypertens 11: 983-988; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00094-6
Effects of losartan and captopril on endothelin-1 production in blood vessels and glomeruli of rats with reduced renal mass
Richard Larivière, Marcel Lebel, Iris Kingma, JohnH Grose and Daniel Boucher
Am J Hypertens 11: 989-997; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00088-0
Gender-specific protection from microvessel rarefaction in female hypertensive rats
PaulaE Papanek, MarkJ Rieder, JulianH Lombard and AndrewS Greene
Am J Hypertens 11: 998-1005; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00114-9
Atrial natriuretic factor and brain natriuretic peptide gene expression in the spontaneous hypertensive rat during postnatal development
Mercedes L. Kuroski de Bold
Am J Hypertens 11: 1006-1018; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00116-2
Brief Communications
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphism
Yukiko Nakata, Tomohiro Katsuya, Seiju Takami, Noriyuki Sato, Yuxiao Fu, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Shin Takiuchi, Hiromi Rakugi, Tetsuro Miki, Jitsuo Higaki and Toshio Ogihara
Am J Hypertens 11: 1019-1023; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00046-6
Lack of effective blood pressure control among an elder hypertensive population in Buenos Aires
Pablo Przygoda, Jorge Janson, Mart
n O'Flaherty, Gabriel Waisman, Carlos R. Galarza, José Alfie, Luis A. Cámera, Mario I. Cámera and Luis M. Mayorga
Am J Hypertens 11: 1024-1027; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00043-0
Exhaustive exercise-induced tissue hypoxia does not change endothelin and big endothelin plasma levels in normal volunteers
Tomas Lenz, Markus Nadansky, Jan Gossmann, Gerhard Oremek and Helmut Geiger
Am J Hypertens 11: 1028-1031; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00086-7
Assessment of left ventricular diastolic filling in arterial hypertension
Michael W. Muscholl, Klaus Kurzidim, Michael Pfeifer, Friedrich Blumberg, Günter A.J Riegger and Dietmar Elsner
Am J Hypertens 11: 1032-1036; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00100-9
Letter to the Editor
The Angiotensinogen Gene Is Not Expressed in Human Leukocytes
Darren R. Davis, Nancy E. Liyou and Anthony G. Johnson
Am J Hypertens 11: 1037-1038; doi:10.1016/S0895-7061(98)00142-3
