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Novel perspectives on salt and interstitium : from hypertension to heart failure
2021-01-01
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Sodium (Na+) and water are closely linked in body fluid physiology by the concepts of osmosis and long-term balance. Our traditional understanding of fluid and electrolytes homeostasis has recently been challenged by suggestions of a systemic metabolic shift favouring water preservation when excess Na+ intake is excreted, and of skin as a depot for Na+ accumulation in multiple cardiovascular diseases and risk fact...
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- 5c023779-db09-57f0-b06d-884b06ab81aa
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- 10.5525/gla.thesis.82130