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J Hum Hypertens
August 2002
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Atherosclerosis Disease, University of Perugia Monteluce Hospital, Perugia, Italy.
The pathophysiological significance of hyperviscosity and capillary rarefaction in untreated essential hypertension is unknown. Fifty untreated hypertensive men with capillary rarefaction (intravital capillaroscopy) and 20 age- and sex-matched normotensive controls underwent full haemorheological profiling (blood viscosity at high and low shear, haematocrit, platelet and leukocyte counts, fibrinogen and total protein concentrations, P-selectin levels, erythrocyte and leukocyte filterability rates and erythrocyte deformability and aggregation indexes). Subjects with skin capillary density below the group median had younger age, higher diastolic pressure, higher blood viscosity at low shear, higher P-selectin levels, higher erythrocyte and leukocyte filterability rates, and higher erythrocyte aggregation indexes (all P < 0.
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