Professor Garry Jennings Publications

  • Effect of prolonged treatment on haemodynamics of essential hypotension before and after automatic block. Lancet 1980;2:166-169. Jennings G, Esler M, Korner P.

  • Estimation of "Total" Renal, Cardiac and Splanchnic sympathetic nervous tone in essential hypertension from measurements of noredrenaline release. J Hypertension 1984;2(Suppl 3):123-125. Esler M, Jennings G, Johns J, Burke F, Little P, Leonard P.

  • Norepinephrine spillover to plasma in patients with congestive heart failure: evidence of increased overall and cardiorenal sympathetic nervous activity. Circulation 1986;73(4):615-21. Hasking GJ, Esler MD, Jennings GL, Burton D, Johns JA, Korner PI. 

  • The effects of changes in physical activity on major cardiovascular risk factors, haemodynamics, sympathetic function, and glucose utilisation in man: a controlled study of four levels of activity. Circulation 1986;73(1):30-40. Jennings G, Nelson L, Nestel P, Esler M, Korner P, Burton D, Bazelmans J.

  • Effect of changing levels of physical activity on blood pressure and haemodynamics in essential hypertension.  Lancet 1986;2(8505):473-6. Nelson L, Jennings GL, Esler MD, Korner PI.

  • Prevalence of cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in untreated primary hypertension [published erratum appears in Hypertension 1989 May;13(5):498]. Hypertension 1989;13(2):151-62. Laufer E, Jennings GL, Korner PI, Dewar E.

  • Circulatory regulation at rest and exercise and the functional assessment of patients with congestive heart failure. Circulation 1990;Suppl 11:II5-II13. Jennings GL, Esler MD.

  • Time-course of the antihypertensive and autonomic effects of regular endurance exercise in human subjects. J Hypertension 1990;8(9):859-66. Meredith IT, Jennings GL, Esler MD, Dewar EM, Bruce AM, Fazio VA, Korner PI.

  • Aortic distensibility in patients with isolated hypercholesterolaemia, coronary artery disease, or cardiac transplant [see comments]. Lancet 1991;338(8762):270-3. Dart AM, Lacombe F, Yeoh JK, Cameron JD, Jennings GL, Laufer E, Esmore DS.

  • Biochemical evidence of sympathetic hyperactivity in human hypertension. Hypertension 1991;17(Suppl III):III-29-III-35. Esler M, Ferrier C, Lambert G, Eisenhofer G, Cox H, Jennings G.

  • Evidence for a role  for the cardiovascular amplifiers in human primary hypertension. Clin ExpPharmacol  Physiol 1991;18(1):37-41. Jennings G, Korner PI, Sudhir K, Esler M, Angus JA, Laufer E.

  • Evidence of a selective increase in cardiac sympathetic activity in patients with sustained ventricular  arrhythmias [see comments]. N Engl J Med 1991;325(9):618-24. Meredith IT, Broughton A, Jennings GL, Esler MD.

  • Exercise training lowers resting renal but not cardiac sympathetic  activity in humans. Hypertension 1991;18(5):575-82. Meredith IT, Friberg P, Jennings GL, Dewar EM, Fazio VA, Lambert GW, Esler MD.

  • Pet ownership and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Med J Aust 1992;157:298-301. Anderson W, Reid C, Jennings G.

  • Effects of walking and other exercise programs upon blood pressure in normal subjects. Med J Aust 1993;158:234-238. Kingwell B, Jennings G.

  • Cardiac sympathetic nervous activity in congestive heart failure: evidence for increased neuronal norepinephrine release and preserved neuronal uptake. Circulation 1993;88(1):136-145. Meredith I, Eisenhofer G, Lambert G, Dewar E, Jennings G, Esler M.

  • Factors influencing the success of withdrawal of anti hypertensive drug therapy. Blood Pressure 1995; 4 (supp 2):99-107. Jennings G, Reid C, Sudhir K, Laufer E, Korner P.

  • Reversibility of left ventricular hypertrophy and malfunction by antihypertensive treatment. In: Handbook of Hypertension. Vol 18: Assessment of hypertensive organ damage (Ed L Hansson and W Birkenhager)  1997; Elsevier Science B.V.184-223. Jennings G, Wong J. 

  • Noradrenaline spillover and microneurography measurements in patients with primary hypertension.  J Hypertension 1998;16 (Suppl 3):S35-S38. Jennings G. 

  • Intensive cholesterol reduction lowers blood pressure and large artery stiffness in isolated systolic hypertension.  J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;39(6):1020-1025. Ferrier KE, Muhlmann MH, Baguet J-P, Cameron JD, Jennings GL, Dart AM, Kingwell BA. 

  • Effect of sunlight and season on serotonin turnover in the brain.  Lancet 2002, 360(9348):1840-1842. Lambert GW, Reid C, Kaye DM, Jennings GL, Esler MD. 

  • A comparison of outcomes with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and diuretics for hypertension in the elderly.  N Engl J Med 2003, 348(7):583-592. Wing LMH, Reid CM, Ryan P, Beilin LJ, Brown MA, Jennings GLR et al for the Second Australian National Blood Pressure Study Group. 

  • Finding improved medicines: the role of academic-industrial collaboration. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2005, 4(11): 891-897. Chin-Dusting J., Mizrahi, J, Jennings G, Fitzgerald D.

  • Protective effects of exercise and PI3K(p110alpha) signaling in dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) January 9, 2007, 104(2): 612-617. McMullen JR, Amirahmadi F, Woodcock EA, Schinke-Braun M, Bouwman RD, Hewitt KA, Mollica JP, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Shioi T, Buerger A, Izumo S, Jay PY, Jennings GL.

  • Similar effects of treatment on central and brachial blood pressures in older hypertensive subjects in the Second Australian National Blood Pressure Trial. Hypertension 2007, 49(6):1242-1247. Dart AM, Cameron JD, Gatzka CD, Willson K, Liang Y-L, Berry KL, Wing LMH, Reid CM, Ryan P, Beilin LJ, Jennings GLR, Johnston CI, McNeil JJ, MacDonald GJ, Morgan TO, West MJ, Kingwell BA.

  • Increased brain serotonin turnover in panic disorder patients in the absence of a panic attack: reduction by a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Stress 2007, 10(3):295-304. Esler M, Lambert E, Alvarenga M, Socratous F, Richards R, Barton D, Pier C, Brenchley C, Dawood T, Hastings J, Guo L, Haikerwal D, Kaye D, Jennings G, Kalff V, Kelly M, Wiesner G, Lambert G.

  • The ONTARGET Investigators. Telmisartan, Ramipril, or Both in Patients at High Risk for Vascular Events. The New England Journal of Medicine April 10, 2008, 358(15):1547-1559.