[Blood electrolyte homeostatic disorder in hypertensive patients and their relatives].

The results of study of the blood electrolyte homeostasis in patients with hypertensive disease and in their close relatives are discussed. It was established that the blood electrolyte homeostasis in healthy relatives of probands, patients with hypertensive disease, was changed as compared to that in healthy individuals of the same age in whose families there were no members with elevated arterial pressure.