
Too much aldosterone causes hypertension through a variety of mechanisms. Too much aldosterone is very toxic for the body and leads to high blood pressure.

Primary Hyperaldosteronism (also known as Conn’s syndrome) is due to an aldosterone producing tumor of the adrenal gland.

High Blood Pressure and Primary Hyperaldosteronism Patients with hypertension need to be screened for an adrenal tumor. Patients with high blood pressure need to have tests to make sure there is not an underlying adrenal tumor. If you have hypertension and have not been investigated for adrenal tumors, please print this blog post, and bring it to your primary care doctor for your next visit. If your doctor is doing this, he or she is just treating the symptom not the root cause. Treating high blood pressure from an adrenal tumor with pills instead of surgery is like treating a major bleeding artery with a Band-Aid. You do not want to just treat your high blood pressure with one pill after another when the underlying problem is an adrenal tumor that can easily be fixed. If you have high blood pressure, make sure that you do not have an adrenal tumor. The good news is that if you have an adrenal tumor and high blood pressure, you can actually cure the hypertension by removing the adrenal tumor. It is also a silent killer because if you do not measure your blood pressure you may not know that you have hypertension Adrenal Tumors and High Blood Pressure Hypertension is a terrible disease and kills patients over months, years, and decades. The inner lining of all your blood vessels (endothelium) is especially affected and that leads to end organ damage of the brain, heart, kidneys, and other tissues.

When your blood pressure is too high, it causes damage to all cells in the body. The importance of diagnosing and treating high blood pressure is that it is a major risk factor for stroke, heart disease, kidney disease and heart arrhythmias. Although that works for some patients, there is a huge number of patients with adrenal tumors who can actually be cured from their hypertension. Doctors and patients try one pill after another to get the blood pressure down. They believe that the only option is to treat it with blood pressure medications. It is one of the most common diseases in the world and most people believe you cannot be cured of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is also known as hypertension.
