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W. Gordon Walker

Researcher at Johns Hopkins University

Publications -  32
Citations -  3414

W. Gordon Walker is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aldosterone & Plasma renin activity. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 32 publications receiving 3384 citations. Previous affiliations of W. Gordon Walker include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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The Effects of Nonpharmacologic Interventions on Blood Pressure of Persons With High Normal Levels: Results of the Trials of Hypertension Prevention, Phase I

TL;DR: Weight reduction is the most effective of the strategies tested for reducing blood pressure in normotensive persons, and sodium reduction is also effective.
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Intrarenal antibiotic distribution in health and disease

TL;DR: The frequency of recurrent urinary tract infections and the fact that a substantial number of all patients entering hemodialysis and renal transplantation programs may have chronic pyel onephritis as their primary form of renal disease serve to document the need for continuing critical evaluation of the management and antibiotic therapy of pyelonephritis.
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Modulation of Plasma Aldosterone Concentration by Plasma Potassium in Anephric Man in the Absence of a Change in Potassium Balance

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that plasma aldosterone concentration can be modulated acutely by transitory changes in plasma potassium concentration without a change in potassium balance.