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All subjects were submitted to a biopsy of subcutaneous fat. Small resistance arteries were dissected and mounted on a micromyograph and the media\/lumen ratio was calculated. A dose-response curve to acetylcholine was performed at cumulative concentrations from 10\n            <jats:sup>\u22129<\/jats:sup>\n            to 10\n            <jats:sup>\u22125<\/jats:sup>\n            mol\/L. The vasodilator response to acetylcholine was similarly impaired in the four groups of hypertensive patients (ANOVA\n            <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n            &lt;.05 versus normotensive controls), without any significant difference among them. In subcutaneous small arteries of patients with either primary aldosteronism or renovascular hypertension, a marked increase in media:lumen ratio was observed, while in patients with pheochromocytoma, the extent of vascular structural alterations was similar to that observed in essential hypertension. No significant correlation between media-lumen ratio or clinic blood pressure and maximum acetylcholine-induced vasodilatation was observed. On the contrary, a significant, albeit not very close, correlation between ABPM values and maximum acetylcholine-induced vasodilatation was observed (\n            <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n            =34,\n            <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n            &lt;.05 with 24-hour systolic blood pressure,\n            <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n            =0.36,\n            <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n            &lt;.05 with 24-hour diastolic blood pressure). 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