Labels:text | screenshot | font | black | black and white OCR: ty of one Hypertension may result from overactiv or more components of the aised bloodrenin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. F ssive pressure may be associated with the exce secretion of aldosterone due either to an primary adrenocortical abnormality (thus termed excessive hyperaldosteronism) or secondary to the renal secretion of renin (as in renovascular or ferred to as parenchymatous disease). The latter is re secondary hyperaldosteronism. See later: . Primary Hypertension . Secondary Hypertension See also: · Mineralocorticoid Physiology.