Serum albumin and blood pressure: a population-based, cross-sectional study

Abstract

Within the different age groups, irrespective of sex and age, a positive association was found between serum albumin and blood pressure. Since albumin, in contrast to high blood pressure, is considered to be cardioprotective, the two variables probably affect cardiovascular risk by unrelated mechanisms.

Decreased Serum Albumin Predicts Hypertension in a Japanese Health Screening Population

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“…NO has a significant role in the regulation of vascular tone and in the control of blood pressure. Therefore, mutation in eNOS alters the NO production and leads to hypertension [14].…”

Association between the serum anion gap and blood pressure among patients at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

“…However, albumin concentration and BP are positively related. 12 Therefore, low albumin concentrations simultaneously increase the SAG and are associated with lower BP, so correction for low albumin concentrations would likely have strengthened the observed association between the SAG and BP. Third, our study was cross-sectional so we cannot conclude that a higher SAG is indeed a risk factor for elevations in BP; rather, it is possible that higher BP is a risk factor for an elevated SAG via an unclear mechanism.…”

“…(interquartile range, 9-13; 5th-95th percentile, [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Tables 1 and 2.…”