Reduced dietary potassium reversibly enhances vasopressor response to stress in African Americans

Hypertension

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1083-1090

  Sudhir, Krishnankutty ^a   Forman, Alex ^a   Yi, Sai Li ^a   Sorof, Jonathan ^a   Schmidlin, Olga ^a   Sebastian, Anthony ^a   Morris Jr , R Curtis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus   (United States)

Author keywords

blacks; cold; mental stress; potassium; race

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; DIETARY INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEGRO; POTASSIUM INTAKE; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SALT INTAKE; STRESS;

EID: 0030979517     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.29.5.1083     Document Type: Article

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