
#457: Austin Robinson, PhD – Salt Sensitive vs Salt Resistant, Impacts of Sodium on Health, & Racial Differences in Risk
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Is Salt Resistant or Salt Sensitive?
When you look at the measurement method used and when you're looking at these gold standard 24 hour measures, then you see that is abolished. You see this kind of more linear relationship compared to the single spot measures where based on that data, that's where you're running into this J shape. And so with high salt, we can track that vasodilate artery will dilate if it has functioning endothelial function. So what we found in both salt resistant and Salt sensitive people is there's a large increase in blood flow which causes reactive hyperimia.
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