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The brain and salt-sensitive hypertension.
Current hypertension reports - 1 Apr 2002
Leenen Frans H H, Ruzicka Marcel, Huang Bing S
Abstract excerpt
Genetically salt-sensitive rats, such as Dahl S and spontaneously hypertensive rats, show clear hypertensive responses to a high salt diet. Neural mechanisms play an essential role in salt-induced hypertension, and recent studies indicate that centrally induced sympathetic hyperactivity actually causes the hypertension. This review discusses the view that the renal genotype is not the only determinant of...
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