From the Fifth Medical Service, Boston City Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Boston University. Bakst, Henry J. — Junior Visiting Physician, Boston City Hospital. Wetherbee, Winthrop, Jr ...

Orthostatic hypertension is an underappreciated but potentially clinically important entity. As alluded to above, orthostatic hypertension is defined simply as an increase in blood pressure upon ...

for the urinary albumin assay. Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of all patients divided into groups according to the orthostatic BP changes determined by HBPM. Table 1 Baseline ...

Urine was not collected in the supine position and increased ACR in some cases may reflect orthostatic albuminuria. Overestimation of albuminuria might have occurred as the single measurement ...

and albuminuria. The initial hypotension episode was not solely responsible for kidney decline. The investigators suggested several plausible mechanisms. Orthostatic hypotension may decrease renal ...