This multicenter trial in essential hypertensive patients (n=94) is aimed i) to evaluate the distribution of blood pressure salt-sensitivity by a rapid volume expansion/contraction protocol over three days; ii) to investigate the within-patient reproducibility and to identify predictors of the response to the test; iii) to compare this response with the response to dietary NaCl restriction.
Prediction and consistency of blood pressure salt-sensitivity as assessed by a rapid volume expansion and contraction protocol. Salt-Sensitivity Study Group of the Italian Society of Hypertension.
Coordinating Center, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. Strazzul@unina.it
