Researchers may have found why women have an edge on salt-sensitive hypertension
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 04:49
in Health & Medicine
Researchers may have found why women have an edge in keeping a healthier balance between the amount of salt they eat and excrete - at least before reaching menopause. Premenopausal women are known to have fewer problems with salt-sensitive hypertension and hypertension in general, but afterward their risks are essentially the same as men, says Dr David Pollock, renal physiologist in the Vascular Biology Centre at the Medical College of Georgia...