In Some Healthy Young Blacks The System That Regulates Blood Pressure Malfunctions

When stress increases blood pressure, a natural mechanism designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn’t work well in about one-third of healthy, black adolescents, researchers report. They hope the finding, which was presented May 8 at the American Society of Hypertension 24th Annual Scientific Program in San Francisco, will lead to early identification of youth at risk of becoming hypertensive adults.

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Filed under: Anxiety on May 11th, 2009