Abstract
Evidence for a relationship between sodium intake and arterial blood pressure in humans is largely circumstantial (1). Epidemiologic studies demonstrating a spectrum of association between magnitude of sodium intake and blood pressure (2, 3) may have been limited by potential genetic factors. We performed a series of experiments to determine: a) whether acute sodium loading can raise blood pressure in normotensive men; b) to examine the threshold as well as possible racial differences of blood pressure response to sodium; and c) to define the mechanisms by which blood pressure changes were induced and compensated for, and to explore the potential significance of such observations to hypertension.
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Weinberger, M.H., Luft, F.C., Bloch, R., Henry, D.P., Weyman, A.E., Rankin, L.I. (1981). Blood Pressure in Sodium Fed Humans. In: Laragh, J.H., Bühler, F.R., Seldin, D.W. (eds) Frontiers in Hypertension Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5899-5_13
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