by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University (from left) Jessica Faulkner, PhD, Graduate Student Candee Barris (seated) and Eric Belin de Chantemele, PhD. Credit: AU photographer Michael Holahan. There is increasing evidence that females of all ethnicities and ages are more salt sensitive than males, and that this propensity to hold onto more salt,...
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston)–High blood pressure (hypertension) affects one in two U.S. adults and can cause hardening and thickening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), which can lead to heart attacks, strokes or other complications including chronic kidney disease. Dietary salt intake can evoke salt-sensitive hypertension, which exists in approximately half of hypertensive patients. A...
by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University In salt-sensitive hypertension, immune cells gather in the kidneys and shoot out free radicals, heightening blood pressure and damaging this pair of vital organs, scientists report. These highly reactive chemicals, also called reactive oxygen species, or ROS, are a byproduct of our body’s use of oxygen that...
