Aldosterone is an important mediator in the pathogenesis of heart failure, and increased plasma aldosterone levels are associated with a poor prognosis. Aldosterone-receptor blocking drugs can ...

What Is an Aldosterone Test? If you’re having any blood pressure problems, your doctor might order an aldosterone test to help them figure out what’s going on. An aldosterone test measures the ...

Purpose: The clinical benefits, adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, and recommendations for the appropriate use of the aldosterone antagonists spironolactone and eplerenone in patients with heart ...

The aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) has gained popularity as a screening test for primary hyperaldosteronism, a probably underdiagnosed cause of hypertension. However, studies have yielded varying ...

Understanding the brain circuitry that controls salt appetite has proved elusive, but now a new study by University of Iowa researchers has identified the first and, thus far, only neurons necessary ...

This article describes how diabetes contributes to erectile dysfunction, and how erectile dysfunction is treated in a patient with diabetes.

PANTHERx® Rare, a leader in rare disease product patient access and support services in the United States, is pleased to announce that it was selected by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. for the ...

Patients who have heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF/HFpEF) and high body mass index ...

There is significant potential with lorundrostat in offering a targeted treatment approach for hypertension and other diseases driven by dysregulated aldosterone.” Dr. Gold’s extensive ...