Increased consumption of table salt and endemic arterial hypertension in Russia
Poseliugina, O.B.
Voprosy Pitaniia 77(6): 28-31
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8833 PMID: 19227860 Document Number: 620852
The results of the inspection of an arterial hypertension 630 patients are adduced in the article. It is shown that sodium chloride are consumed by the arterial hypertension patients in two times more than by healthy persons. It is basically connected with a lowering of gustatory sense to sodium chloride. The over-use of leads to heavier current of arterial hypertension and to earlier development of complications is accompanied by the occurrence like neurosis changes of the person. Every kind of restriction of sodium chloride consumption by people is defining factor in preventive measures of arterial hypertension.