Cardiovascular disease: Salt and cardiovascular risk

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 134-136

  He, Feng J ^a   MacGregor, Graham A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIURETIC THERAPY; HEART PROTECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SURVIVAL RATE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84857783600     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2011.220     Document Type: Review

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