Effect of oral salt loading on blood pressure and lymphocyte sodium metabolism in borderline hypertension
- Resource Type
- Authors
- P. Jest; Rokkedal Nielsen J; Knud Erik Pedersen; Torben Johansen; Niels Anders Klitgaard
- Source
- Pedersen, K E, Jest, P, Klitgaard, N A, Rokkedal Nielsen, J & Johansen, T 1986, ' Effect of oral salt loading on blood pressure and lymphocyte sodium metabolism in borderline hypertension ', Acta medica Scandinavica. Supplementum, vol. 714, pp. 81-5 .
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Normal diet
Lymphocyte
Sodium
chemistry.chemical_element
Blood Pressure
Sodium Chloride
Essential hypertension
Placebo
Random Allocation
Double-Blind Method
Internal medicine
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
Lymphocytes
Salt intake
business.industry
medicine.disease
Endocrinology
Blood pressure
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
Hypertension
business
Homeostasis
- Language
- ISSN
- 0001-6101
A randomized double-blind cross-over trial was performed to test the effects of oral salt loading (normal diet + 200 mmol NaCl/day for 4 weeks followed by normal diet + 400 mmol/day for 1 week) against placebo on blood pressure and lymphocyte sodium homeostasis in 10 young borderline hypertensive men, genetically predisposed for essential hypertension. Salt loading caused no significant changes in blood pressure levels, lymphocyte sodium content and efflux. In conclusion, our subjects seem insensitive to a few weeks of excessive salt intake.