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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 280: R807-R813, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 3, R807-R813, March 2001

Effect of oral contraceptives on the renin angiotensin system and renal function

Amrit K. Kang, John A. Duncan, Daniel C. Cattran, John S. Floras, Vesta Lai, James W. Scholey, and Judith A. Miller

Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1

We examined the effect of oral contraceptive (OC) usage on the renin angiotensin system (RAS) in two related experiments. In the first experiment, subjects were 34 healthy, normotensive, premenopausal women, 15 OC users and 19 OC nonusers, mean age 25 ± 1 yr, ingesting a controlled sodium diet. We assessed arterial pressure, glomerular filtration rate, effective renal plasma flow, renal vascular resistance (RVR), and filtration fraction (FF) using inulin and p-aminohippurate clearance techniques, both at baseline and in response to the ANG II receptor blocker losartan. In the second experiment, in similar subjects, 10 OC users and 10 nonusers, we examined circulating RAS components [angiotensinogen, ANG II, aldosterone, plasma renin activity (PRA), and active renin] in response to incremental lower body negative pressure (LBNP), to determine whether renin secretion is suppressed by OC usage. OC users exhibited elevations in systolic blood pressure, RVR, and FF compared with nonusers, which were partially corrected by losartan. In the LBNP phase of the study, baseline measures of PRA, angiotensinogen, ANG II, and aldosterone were all increased in the OC group compared with the control group. Active renin levels did not differ between groups. Incremental LBNP resulted in increased circulating levels of RAS components in both groups. We conclude that the RAS is activated in women using OCs. There was no evidence that decreases in renin secretion result in normalization of the RAS as a whole.

angiotensin II; losartan; arterial blood pressure; filtration fraction; lower body negative pressure


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