Salt and hypertension: Is salt dietary reduction worth the effort?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 433-439

  Frisoli, Tiberio M ^a   Schmieder, Roland E ^b   Grodzicki, Tomasz ^c   Messerli, Franz H ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Lifestyle; Salt; Sodium

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84859513088     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.10.023     Document Type: Review

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