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Salt in Health and Disease — A Delicate Balance

Kotchen, Theodore A ; Cowley, Allen W ; Frohlich, Edward D

The New England journal of medicine, 2013-03, Vol.368 (13), p.1229-1237 [Revista revisada por pares]

Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

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Salt in Health and Disease — A Delicate Balance
Autor: Kotchen, Theodore A ; Cowley, Allen W ; Frohlich, Edward D
Materias: Age ; Animals ; Biological and medical sciences ; Blood pressure ; Blood Pressure - drug effects ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Cardiovascular Diseases - chemically induced ; Care and treatment ; Causes of ; Confidence intervals ; Feeding Behavior ; General aspects ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypertension - chemically induced ; Medical sciences ; Miscellaneous ; Nutrition Policy ; Nutrition Surveys ; Nutritional aspects ; Potassium ; Public health. Hygiene ; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine ; Salt ; Sodium Chloride, Dietary - administration & dosage ; Sodium Chloride, Dietary - adverse effects ; Sodium Chloride, Dietary - pharmacology ; United States
Es parte de: The New England journal of medicine, 2013-03, Vol.368 (13), p.1229-1237
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Descripción: This review provides an overview of our current understanding of the relation of salt consumption to hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The fact that salt (sodium chloride) is essential for life has been recognized for millennia. Historically, the exchange value of salt played an important role in establishing trade routes, securing alliances, and provoking revolutions. Homer referred to salt as a divine substance, and Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Salt has been associated with sexual potency, fertility, and immortality. In sodium-deficient states, salt consumption is driven by salt appetite — an innate and motivated behavioral response that drives a human or animal to seek and ingest salt-containing foods and fluids. 1 However, under usual circumstances, the ambient salt . . .
Editor: Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
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Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society

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