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Intracellular cations and hypertension in blacks.
Ethnicity & health - 1 May 1996
Cooper R S
Abstract excerpt
Considerable attention has been focused in recent years on the role of intracellular ions in the pathophysiology of hypertension in African Americans. Following the identification of marked differences in red cell sodium content and sodium-lithium counter-transport between blacks and whites, the hypothesis emerged that cation metabolism at the cellular level might account for part of the ethnic difference in...
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