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Enhanced affective startle modulation in salt-sensitive subjects.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Dec 2001
Buchholz K, Schächinger H, Wagner M, Schorr U, Sharma A M, Deter H C
Abstract excerpt
Salt-sensitive normotensive men exhibit an enhanced pressor response to mental stress. Although an enhanced pressor response is associated with higher affective startle modulation in men, an association between salt sensitivity of blood pressure and affective startle modulation has not been studied so far. We studied reactivity to mental stress and startle modulation in 14 salt-sensitive healthy white male...
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