How does potassium supplementation lower blood pressure?

American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  McDonough, Alicia A ^a   Nguyen, Mien T X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM; WATER;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FRUIT; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM INTAKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAIWAN; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UNINEPHRECTOMY; VASODILATATION; VEGETABLE; VETERAN;

EID: 84860534809     PISSN: 1931857X     EISSN: 15221466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00429.2011     Document Type: Letter

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