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Questions continued: 4. What is the explanation of hypertension? Is aldosterone secretion elevated? Would you expect it to be elevated in this patient? The elevated blood pressure may be in part due to of cortisol. Cortisol enhances the response of blood vessels to Aldosterone secretion is not not and water due to aldosterone-like effects and so may have a more direct effect. , as one might expect, since elevation of ACTH would cause increase but retention sodium hypertensive cortisol elevated norepinephrine aldosterone , secretion. QUESTION 25

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The elevated blood pressure is due to sodium and water retention. Cortisol enhances the responses of blood vessels to norepinephrine and so may have direct hypertensive effect. Aldosterone secretion is not elevated as one may expect, since elevation of ACTH would cause increased cortisol but not aldosterone secretion.

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