Salt and the metabolic syndrome

Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Hoffmann, Irene S ^a   Cubeddu, Luigi X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Health Professions Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Metabolic syndrome; Obesity; Salt intake; Urinary potassium; Urinary sodium

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SALT INTAKE; URINE; VENEZUELA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POTASSIUM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; VENEZUELA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 60149090161     PISSN: 09394753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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