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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2015 Dec 7;67(2):424–429. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06617

Table 1.

Patient Clinical Characteristics

Parameter, unit Patients (n=10) Normal*
Age, years 70 ± 2 64 ± 3
Gender, men/women 7/3 6/4
Body Mass Index, kg/m2 25 ± 1 25 ± 1
Disease Duration, years 8 ± 2
Supine
 SBP, mmHg 174 ± 7 116 ± 5
 DBP, mmHg 92 ± 4 74 ± 4
 HR, bpm 64 ± 3 66 ± 4
 Norepinephrine, pg/ml 128 ± 54 352 ± 65
 Plasma Renin Activity, ng/ml/hr 0.10 ± 0.01 0.34 ± 0.13
 Plasma Aldosterone, ng/dl 4.2 ± 1.1 2.4 ± 0.7
Upright
 SBP, mmHg 95 ± 13 121 ± 6
 DBP, mmHg 55 ± 5 79 ± 3
 HR, bpm 79 ± 6 76 ± 4
 Norepinephrine, pg/ml 185 ± 51 689 ± 61
 Plasma Renin Activity, ng/ml/hr 0.18 ± 0.05 0.73 ± 0.29
 Plasma Aldosterone, ng/dl 7.8 ± 2.0 5.7 ± 1.0

Data are presented as mean ± SEM.

*

Normal values are for reference only, and were obtained from healthy age-matched volunteers obtained from the Vanderbilt Autonomic Dysfunction Center database. SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HR, heart rate.