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Can you tell me about elevated catecholamines?
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Stress response: Hi. Elevated catecholamines are part of the "fight or flight" response mediated by the sympathetic nervous system in response to a serious threat to your survival. If someone has a tumor that makes catecholamines (pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma), they have elevated catecholamines, and usually bad high blood pressure, palpitations, sweating, headache, and pallor. Interesting stuff!
Answered 7/14/2014
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