Can exercise renography be an alternative to ACE inhibitor renography in hypertensive patients who are suspicious for renal artery stenosis?
These results indicate that exercise renography has a similar sensitivity but lower specificity compared with captopril scintigraphy in the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis. Because of the lower specificity, its use in the screening of renovascular hypertension may be limited. Exercise renography may be more useful as an investigative tool for essential hypertension.
There were significant associations between serum apoB, the apoB/apoA-I ratio and elevated CIMT. Serum apoB and the apoB/apoA-I ratio might be independent predictors of early atherosclerosis in NGT.