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Genetics of salt-sensitive hypertension.
Current hypertension reports - 1 Mar 2007
Strazzullo Pasquale, Galletti Ferruccio
Abstract excerpt
Excess dietary salt intake represents a predominant cause of hypertension. However, individual blood pressure response to salt is heterogeneous, possibly due to different inherited susceptibility. The early identification of rare monogenic forms of hypertension associated with abnormalities of renal tubular sodium handling and response to diuretics highlighted the important role of renal alterations in...
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