What Are the Effects of Low Renin Levels?
1.0-2.5 g · L -1 / h.
Basic Information
- Name
- Renin activity
- category
- blood
- 1.0-2.5g · L -1
- Decrease: seen in essential hypertension with low renin type, primary aldosteronism, pseudoaldosteronism, glucocorticoid-inhibitory aldosteronism, 11- hydroxylase deficiency, adrenaline tumor, Alpha hydroxylase deficiency, ectopic adrenocorticocytoma, renal parenchymal disease, etc. Elevation: seen in high primary hypertension. Renin type, malignant hypertension, Bart syndrome, vascular hypertension, pregnancy, cirrhosis, edema, adrenal insufficiency, low sodium diet, juxtaglomerular cell tumor, etc.
- (1) Determination of plasma renin activity. The diet of subjects should be controlled by sodium and potassium intake. The standard diet is daily: 100 mmol sodium and 60-100 mmol potassium. (2) Oral contraceptives can increase plasma renin activity, and the use of mineral corticoids, licorice, etc. can reduce the measurement results.
- Primary hyperaldosteronism, polyarteritis, congenital adrenal hyperplasia in children, Gordon syndrome, essential hypertension, renal vascular hypertension, renal dysplasia