These patients are often prescribed renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors, including angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs). This ...

Figure 1 Overview on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone System. ACTH secreted by the anterior pituitary gland stimulates aldosterone production from adrenal gland zona glomerulosa (ZG) cells. Renin ...

The activation of the classical renin–angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) is known to be involved in the regulation of blood volume and blood pressure and plays an important role in cardiovascular ...

Background: The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone (RAA) system regulates blood pressure (BP) levels and influences responses to antihypertensive medications. Variation in RAA system genes has been ...

Role of Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Activation in Promoting Cardiovascular Fibrosis and Stiffness Guanghong Jia [email protected], Annayya R. Aroor, Michael A. Hill, and James R.

Pulmonary fibrosis is a devastating lung disease with multifactorial etiology characterized by alveolar injury, fibroblast proliferation and excessive deposition of extracellular matrix proteins, ...

I would like to respond to 2 statements in the commentary by Quinn and colleagues. [1] [1] Angiotensinogen is produced mainly in the liver and fat cells, in response to poor perfusion, and acts as a ...

Renin‐angiotensin aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitor—COVID‐19 studies, observational in design, appear to use biased methods that can distort the interaction between RAAS inhibitor use and COVID‐19 ...