Max C Reif, MD Professor of Medicine Director of Hypertension Section College of Medicine University of Cincinnati

Answers questions in the following forums:

• High Blood Pressure

NetWellness Articles associated with this Author:

	Article Name	Forum
	Introduction	Heart Health
	Kidney Failure Among African Americans	Kidney Diseases
	High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) and African Americans	African American Health

Education:

• 1969-73 MD University of Lausanne School of Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland

Post Graduate Training:

• 1974-75 Resident, University of Lausanne Medical Center
• 1975-77 Resident, Internal Medicine, New York Infirmary
• 1977-78 Chief Resident, New York Infirmary
• 1978-81 Fellow, Renal Diseases, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Associations:

• American Society of Hypertension
• American Heart Association
• American Society of Nephrology
• International Society of Nephrology
• American Physiological Society

Partial List of Publications:

• Reif MC, White W, Fagan T, Oparil S, Flanagan TL, Edwards DT, Cushing DJ, Michelson EL. Effects of candesartan cilexetil in patients with systemic hypertension. American Journal of Cardiology 82(8): 961-965, 1998
• Onions K, Hunt SC, Rutkowski MP, Klanke CA, Su YR, Reif MC, Menon AG. Genetic markers at the leptin (OB) locus are not linked to hypertension in African Americans. Hypertension 31(6): 1230-1234, 1998
• Cui Y, Su YR, Rutkowski M, Reif M, Menon AG, Pun RYK. Loss of protein kinase C (PKC) inhibition in the beta T594M variant of the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94(18): 9962-9966, 1997
• Oparil S, Kobrin I, Abernethy DR, Levine BS, Reif MC, Shepherd AM. Dose-response characteristics of mibefradil, a novel calcium channel antagonist, in the treatment of essential hypertension. American Journal of Hypertension 10(7,pt.1): 735-742, 1997
• Su YR, Rutkowski MP, Klanke CA, Wu X, Pun RYK, Carter V, Gartside PS, Reif M, Menon A. A novel variant of the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel beta-subunit in African Americans is associated with enhance cAMP responsiveness. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 7(12): 2543-2549, 1996
• Hebert LA, Agarwal G, Ladson-Wofford SE, Reif MC, Hiremath L, Carlton SG, Nahman NS, Falkenhain ME, Agarwal A. Nocturnal blood pressure in treated hypertensive African Americans compared to treated hypertensive European Americans. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 7(10): 2130-2134, 1996
• Reif MC, Hanto DW, Moulton JS, Alspaugh JP, Bejarano P. Primary hepatic pheochromocytoma? American Journal of Hypertension 9(10 pt.1): 1040-1043, 1996
• Reif MC, Carter V. The retail cost of antihypertensive therapy. Physician and patient as educated consumers. American Journal of Hypertension 7(7 pt.1): 571-575, 1994
• Chen L, Reif MC, Schafer JA. Clonidine and PGE2 have different effects on sodium and water in the rat and rabbit CCD. American Journal of Physiology, 261(1 pt.2): F126-F136, 1991
• Bindels RJM, Schafer JA, Reif MC. Stimulation of sodium transport by aldosterone and arginine vasotocin in A6 cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 972(3): 320-330, 1988
• Reif MC, Troutman SL, Schafer JA. Sodium transport by rat cortical collecting tubule. Effects of vasopressin and desoxycorticosterone. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 77(4): 1291-1298, 1986
• Wall B, Keller FS, Spalding MD, Reif MC. Massive hemorrhage from a lumbar artery following percutaneous renal biopsy. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 7(3): 250-253, 1986
• Reif MC, Troutman SL, Schafer JA. Sustained response to vasopressin in isolated rat cortical collecting tubule. Kidney International, 26(5): 725-732, 1984
• Abramson RG, King VF, Reif MC,Leal-Pinto E, Baruch SB. Urate uptake in membrane vesicles of rat renal cortex: Effect of copper. American Journal of Physiology, 242(2): F158-F170, 1982
• Reif MC, Constantiner A, Levitt MF. Chronic gouty nephropathy: A vanishing syndrome? (Editorial) New England Journal of Medicine, 304(9): 535, 1981
• Luke RG, Reif MC. Cardiovascular System in Uremia - Hypertension. In: Massry & Glassock's Textbook of Nephrology (4th edition). Massry SG, Glassock RJ, ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore,(in press)
• Luke RG, Reif MC. Cardiovascular System in Uremia - Hypertension. In: Massry & Glassock's Textbook of Nephrology (3rd edition). Massry SG, Glassock RJ, ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
• Reif MC, Michelson EL. Clinical overview of dose-response study of candersartan cilexetil in systemic hypertension. Cardiol Rev (in press)