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John H. Laragh, Dr. Michael H. Alderman Takes the Helm as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Hypertension, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2006, Pages 1197–1198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjhyper.2006.10.004
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It is a pleasure for me to announce that Dr. Michael Alderman will replace me as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Hypertension effective January 1, 2007. Dr. Alderman is a world-renowned epidemiologist who is unique among his peers because he has been especially interested in asking pathophysiologic questions in performing his population trials. This penchant led him to demonstrate, in a classic eight-year trial of 1717 hypertensive worksite employees,1 that the height of the entry ambulatory plasma renin level was directly related to the subsequent occurrence of a myocardial infarction (MI). At the same time, he found that no MI’s occurred in the 251 patients who had low entry plasma renin levels. This led Alderman to do a confirming follow up study showing that dietary salt-depleted hypertensives with consequent higher renin values and lower urinary sodium values had proportionally higher heart attack rates than did those who ate more salt, and therefore had progressively lower renin values.2