Clinical significance of changes and ratio imbalance of neuropeptide Y and neurotensin in patients with essential hypertension / 吉林大学学报(医学版)

Objective To study the effects of changes of neuropeptide Y(NPY) and neurotensin(NT) concentrations in plasma and their ratio imbalance on the incidence of essential hypertension (EH). Methods NPY and NT in plasma in 176 patients with EH were measured with radioimmunoassay(RIA). Results NPY in the EH patients was higher than that in the normal subjects (P