Hi Dan,

Yep. I was dix'd with high blood pressure after I was
diagnosed with a Pituitary Tumor and secondary addisons.
It's all related since the hypothalmus pulses the ACTH
hormone which controls the level of cortisol. Here are a
couple of links that explain the relationship somewhat.

Would you mind sharing with me how you got Addisons?

Regards,

Beverly

http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/hypoANS.html

"HYPOTHALAMUS AND AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

A. Hypothalamus = Homeostasis

The main function of the hypothalamus is homeostasis, or
maintaining the body's status quo. Factors such as blood
pressure, body temperature, fluid and electrolyte balance,
and body weight are held to a precise value called the
set-point. Although this set-point can migrate over time,
from day to day it is remarkably fixed.

"

http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/research/highlights/dampney_achieve.html

"We do know that the hypothalamus is a key centre, and that
there is a nerve pathway from this hypothalmus down to a
key centre in the medulla that regulates blood pressure.
The important discovery that Dr Tatsuya Tagawa made in this
laboratory is that this descending pathway from the
hypothalamus activates nerve cells in the medulla via AT1
receptor.

We have known for 10 years that these receptors existed in
the medulla, but we didn't know what they did. His study
suggests a role for them, that they mediate inputs from
higher levels of the brain.

In conditions like heart failure , and in some kinds of
high blood pressure, there is a greatly increased level of
firing of sympathetic nerves that control the heart and
blood vessels.

It is possible that one of the factors that generates this
increased activity is increased firing of certain regions
of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, which
influences what happens in the medulla, and these critical
nerve cells in the medulla then in turn affect blood
pressure and heart rate.
"


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