Salt addiction: A different kind of drug addiction

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1233-1234

  Tekol, Yalcin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADDICTION; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT ADDICTION; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ASTHMA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 33748048178     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.041     Document Type: Article

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