St. Paul’s Hospital is an acute care, teaching and research hospital located in downtown Vancouver. St. Paul’s Hospital Laboratory has been a world leader in the development of accurate diagnostic assays for the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism and a number of other related conditions affecting the renin angiotensin aldosterone system. St. Paul’s Hospital laboratory is the only site in Canada offering aldosterone and plasma renin activity testing by tandem mass spectrometry, and acts as a reference lab for numerous research studies, other labs and even diagnostic companies for aldosterone analysis. Additionally, St. Paul’s Hospital is one of the two locations of the British Columbia Hypertension Clinic which specializes in the clinical investigation and management of complex hypertension cases including primary aldosteronism and pheochromocytoma. The other clinic location is at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC (60
