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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 46-year-old man who does heavy physical labor and who is an active person in all sports. I had a physical exam and my blood pressure was 180/120. The doctor put me on medicine, and it lowered the pressure some but not enough. The doctor thinks that my high pressure could be due to a problem with blood flow to my kidneys, and that entails surgery. What's he talking about? - L.N.
ANSWER: He's talking about renovascular hypertension, a special kind of high blood pressure due to narrowing of a kidney artery. It's a potentially correctable kind of high blood pressure.See the full content of this document
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Kidneys Have a Role in High Blood Pressure
The kidneys make renin, a body chemical that keeps blood pressure up when it starts to drop. If one kidney has a narrow artery feeding it, that kidney thinks blood pressure is o...
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