Postprandial blood pressure fall: Another dangerous face of blood pressure variability

摘要

Blood pressure is regulated or determined by many factors, such as fluid volume, sympathetic nervous system, renin-angiotensin system, and vascular structure. Overactivity of sympathetic nervous system is one of the important causes of primary hypertension [1], and central neural regulation of blood pressure has been extensively investigated in animal models of hypertension [2]. To date, many neuropeptides have been shown to be involved in the central regulation of sympathetic nervous system and blood pressure [3].