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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 271: F1114-F1122, 1996;
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AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 271, Issue 6 1114-F1122, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Effect of age on blood acid-base composition in adult humans: role of age-related renal functional decline

L. A. Frassetto, R. C. Morris Jr and A. Sebastian
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.

In 64 apparently healthy adult humans (ages 17-74 yr) ingesting controlled diets, we investigated the separate and combined effects of age, glomerular filtration rate (GFR, index of age-related renal functional decline), renal net acid excretion [NAE, index of endogenous acid production (EAP)], and blood PCO2 (PbCO2, index of respiratory set point) on steady-state blood hydrogen ion ([H+]b) and plasma bicarbonate concentration ([HCO3-]p). Independent predictors of [H+]b and [HCO3-]p were PbCO2, NAE, and either age or GFR, but not both, because the two were highly correlated (inversely). [H+]b increased with increasing PbCO2, NAE, and age and with decreasing GFR. [HCO3-]p decreased with increasing NAE and age but increased with increasing PbCO2 and GFR. Age (or GFR) at constant NAE had greater effect on both [H+]b and [HCO3-]p than did NAE at constant age (or GFR). Neither PbCO2 nor NAE correlated with age or GFR. Thus two metabolic factors, diet-dependent EAP and age (or GFR), operate independently to determine blood acid-base composition in adult humans. Otherwise healthy adults manifest a low-grade diet-dependent metabolic acidosis, the severity of which increases with age at constant EAP, apparently due in part to the normal age-related decline of renal function.


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