Effect of modest salt reduction on skin capillary rarefaction in white, black, and Asian individuals with mild hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-259

  He, Feng J ^a   Marciniak, MacIej ^b   Markandu, Nirmala D ^a   Antonios, Tarek F ^b   MacGregor, Graham A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capillary rarefaction; dietary; hypertension; microcirculation; randomized trial; sodium

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SODIUM; ALDOSTERONE; HEMOGLOBIN; RENIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN CAPILLARY; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; TARGET ORGAN; URINALYSIS; VENOUS CONGESTION; BLOOD; CAPILLARY; CAUCASIAN; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAROGRAPHY; SKIN; SYSTOLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ALDOSTERONE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAPILLARIES; DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FINGERS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBOS; POLAROGRAPHY; RENIN; SKIN; SYSTOLE;

EID: 77955492960     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.110.155747     Document Type: Article

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