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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Skin Salt and Hypertension



ORLANDO -- Move over kidneys, brain, and blood vessels because there may be a new organ involved in hypertension control – the skin.

Not only does the skin store sodium that is possibly related to hypertension, but the amount of sodium can be assessed with an MRI scan, Peter Linz, PhD, from Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany, and colleagues found.

The levels of sodium in the skin of five

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