High salt intake as a multifaceted cardiovascular disease: new support from cellular and molecular evidence

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 461-474

  Baldo, Marcelo Perim ^a   Rodrigues, Sérgio Lamêgo ^a   Mill, José Geraldo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cardiac remodeling; Hypertension; Hypertrophy; Salt sensitivity; Sodium

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; ANGIOTENSIN II; CYTOCHROME P450 3A; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; SALT INTAKE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ALLELE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL AGING; CELL DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEREDITY; HIGH SALT INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEL MUTATION; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEART; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HEART; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84930871905     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-015-9478-7     Document Type: Article

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