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Salt Reduction to Prevent Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease JACC State-of-the-Art Review
(Elsevier Inc., 2020-02-18)There is strong evidence for a causal relationship between salt intake and blood pressure. Randomized trials demonstrate that salt reduction lowers blood pressure in both individuals who are hypertensive and those who are ... -
Salt substitution to lower population blood pressure
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Scanning electron microscopy for blood micro-crystals in aortic stenosis patients.
(2018)BACKGROUND: Micro-crystals of calcium phosphate have been detected on the aortic valve of patients with aortic stenosis using scanning electron microscopy. It is not known whether crystalisation is specific to heart valve ... -
Serum sodium concentration and the progression of established chronic kidney disease.
(2018-10-16)BACKGROUND: Higher serum sodium concentration has been reported to be a risk factor for the development of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD), but its relationship with the progression of established CKD has not been ... -
Service use and costs for people with headache: a UK primary care study.
(2011-12)This paper aims to estimate the service and social costs of headache presenting in primary care and to identify predictors of headache costs. Patients were recruited from GP practices in England and service use and lost ... -
Should Fractional Flow Reserve follow Angiographic Visual Inspection to guide Preventive PCI in STEMI?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-02-11)AIMS: We aimed to quantify the effect of preventive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI to non-infarct arteries) on cardiac death and non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial ...