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A population-based study was performed in order to study the interrelationships of the circulating components of the renin-angiotensin system during basal conditions and their relations to blood pressure (BP), age and gender. One hundred and four women and 95 men, 18–70 years old, evenly age distributed and randomly selected from the population of Linköping, Sweden, participated. Venous blood was drawn at 08.00 hours and ambulatory BP recording was then performed. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity correlated with plasma angiotensin II (r = 0.20, P = 0.004), but when calculated separately according to gender, the correlation remained significant only in men (r = 0.33, P = 0,001). Plasma renin activity (PRA) correlated negatively with age (r = −0.30, P < 0.0001), but immunoreactive active renin (irr) and angiotensin ii did not. pra and irr correlated negatively with bp in women but correlations disappeared after age adjustment. the 23 women on oestrogen medication did not differ from the remaining 81 with respect to age (P = 0.6), IRR (P = 0.96) or angiotensin II (P = 0.4) levels, but PRA was higher (2.2 ± 1.4 ng Ang I/ml/h and 1.5 ± 0.9 ng Ang I/ml/h, respectively, P = 0.004). PRA (r = 0.38, P < 0.0001) and irr (r = 0.49, P < 0.0001) correlated positively with the levels of angiotensin ii. in conclusion the fact that pra, but not irr, declined with age and was higher among oestrogen-treated women, although angiotensin ii was unaffected suggests irr to be a more robust marker of angiotensin ii levels than is pra in a population-based setting. ace correlates positively with angiotensin ii in men.
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Nyström, F., Karlberg, B. & Öhman, K. Serum angiotensin-converting enzyme activity correlates positively with plasma angiotensin II: a population-based study of ambulatory blood pressure and the renin-angiotensin system. J Hum Hypertens 11, 301–306 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1000433
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