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Salt and Blood Pressure: Cutting Through the Scientific Fog

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  1. Departments of Cardiology and Clinical Research and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital Bern, CH-3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Emrush Rexhaj, Franz H. Messerli, David Cerny & Juergen Bohlender

  2. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Franz H. Messerli

  3. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Franz H. Messerli

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Rexhaj, E., Messerli, F.H., Cerny, D. et al. Salt and Blood Pressure: Cutting Through the Scientific Fog. Curr Hypertens Rep 19, 47 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11906-017-0747-9

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