Sentences with phrase «reduced aldosterone»

Addison's disease is one disorder that causes reduced aldosterone production.

The hormonal problems may result in increased sodium loss due to reduced aldosterone and may increase the athlete's vulnerability to hyponatremia — a serious condition of low sodium (although this can also appear in Stage 2).

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A late - breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 2013, demonstrates that spironolactone did not reduce the primary outcome of cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization, nor surviving a cardiac arrest in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (pump function).

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Conversely, when the level of aldosterone lowers, the amount of sodium and water in the body is reduced.

Hormone imbalance can also trigger secondary changes such as high cortisol reducing sex hormones and aldosterone (the latter regulates water and electrolytes).

Reduced secretion of aldosterone (a steroid hormone secreted by the Adrenal Cortex); which is the primary mineralocorticoid of the adrenal glands can cause a severe imbalance of minerals in the body; such as potassium, chloride and sodium.