Role of Salt in Rising Blood Pressure Revealed

Excessive salt intake "reprograms" the brain by interfering with a natural safety mechanism that normally prevents the body's arterial blood pressure from rising, found an international research team led by scientists at McGill University. Prof. Charles Bourque of McGill's Faculty of Medicine said that a period of high dietary salt intake in rats caused a biochemical change in the neurons that released vasopressin (VP) into the systemic circulation. This ...