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Could hypertension possibly be adaptive?

E S Prakash1, G D Fink

  • 1Faculty of Medicine, AIMST University, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia. dresprakash@gmail.com

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology & Physiology
|September 2, 2009
PubMed
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Elevated blood pressure (BP) may be a beneficial adaptation to maintain tissue blood flow when autoregulation fails. This suggests hypertension could be a survival mechanism, not just a disease.

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Published on: March 5, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Cardiovascular physiology
  • Hypertension research
  • Autoregulation mechanisms

Background:

  • Cardiovascular regulation aims to match tissue blood flow with metabolic needs.
  • Arterial blood pressure (BP) regulation may serve tissue perfusion rather than being an end goal.
  • Primary defects in tissue blood flow autoregulation are implicated in hypertension development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a hypothesis linking primary defects in tissue blood flow autoregulation to hypertension.
  • To explore the potential adaptive role of a hypertensive phenotype in species survival.
  • To review indirect evidence and suggest methods for testing the proposed hypothesis.

Main Methods:

  • Review of experimental and clinical evidence indirectly supporting the hypothesis.
  • Conceptual framework linking metaboreflex to hypertension in the context of autoregulatory defects.
  • Proposal of experimental approaches to validate the hypothesis.

Main Results:

  • Elevated BP may optimize tissue blood flow when autoregulation is impaired.
  • Hypertension, driven by mechanisms like the metaboreflex, might be an adaptive survival response.
  • The hypertensive phenotype could increase species lifespan by preventing circulatory failure.

Conclusions:

  • The primary goal of cardiovascular regulation is tissue perfusion, not blood pressure.
  • Hypertension may arise from a primary failure in tissue blood flow autoregulation.
  • The development of hypertension could be an adaptive mechanism enhancing survival.