#457: Austin Robinson, PhD – Salt Sensitive vs Salt Resistant, Impacts of Sodium on Health, & Racial Differences in Risk
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Salt Sensitivity in a Research Setting?
There are some small physiology papers that have tried to use different tools to predict who salt sensitive. But again, these were kind of small studies difficult to even still like that would be difficult for a dietician or a standard physician primary care provider to infuse someone with hypertonic saline or give them isosmodic, you know, diuretics. So that's a challenge. What we typically do in our studies and what most people do is a 24 hour urine collection. And then if you want to get even more granular, there's more recent data suggesting that to get really reliable data, you would need multiple 24 hour collections.
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