Summary(1) Progesterone administration to rats and dogs with experimental hypertension and to humans with primary arterial hypertension resulted in a decline in blood pressure levels. Blood pressures increased once more in all cases after progesterone was discontinued. (2) In humans, but not necessarily in rats and dogs, blood pressure reduction would appear to have resulted from natruresis.
PMID 13794314 13794314 DOI 10.3181/00379727-102-25282 10.3181/00379727-102-25282
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Armstrong, J. G. (1959). Hypotensive action of progesterone in experimental and human hypertension. *Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)*, *102*(2), 452-455. https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-102-25282
Armstrong JG. Hypotensive action of progesterone in experimental and human hypertension. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1959;102(2):452-455. doi:10.3181/00379727-102-25282
Armstrong, J. G. "Hypotensive action of progesterone in experimental and human hypertension." *Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (New York, N.Y.)*, vol. 102, no. 2, 1959, pp. 452-455.
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