The taste of salt measured by a simple test and blood pressure in Japanese women and men

Hypertension Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 399-403

  Michikawa, Takehiro ^a   Nishiwaki, Yuji ^a   Okamura, Tomonor ^a   Asakura, Keiko ^a   Nakano, Makiko ^a   Takebayashi, Toru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PREVALENCE; SALT INTAKE; SEX RATIO; SODIUM RESTRICTION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 68249153571     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.31     Document Type: Article

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