<unk>  <unk>  is a laboratory<unk>  which is an animal model of essential (or primary) hypertension, used to study cardiovascular disease. It is the most studied model of hypertension measured as number of publications. The<unk>  strain was obtained during the 1960s by Okamoto and colleagues, who started breeding Wistar-Kyoto<unk> s with high blood pressure.
Spontaneously hypertensive rat
Renovascular hypertension
Familial hyperaldosteronism
Primary aldosteronism
White coat hypertension
Benign hypertension
Essential hypertension
Labile hypertension