Raised Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness Correlate with Loss of Kidney Function There is a bidirectional relationship between declining kidney function and raised blood pressure, two prominent features of aging. The kidney is responsible for managing blood volume (one contribution to blood pressure) by adjusting the amount of water in blood as the bloodstream is filtered, a process that depends on some combination of the sensing of soluble factors and pressure. These complex systems fail with age in ways that can lead to raised blood pressure. Raised blood pressure in turn can damage the kidney directly, but also indirectly disrupt the balance of blood pressure control systems elsewhere in the body, such as via the constriction and dilation of blood vessels, or heart rate, that interact with those of the kidney via signaling molecules. It is a […]
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