Nature Medicine
1, 994 - 996 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm1095-994
Dietary salt and blood pressureAlan R. Dyer1, Rose Stamler1, Paul Elliott2
& Jeremiah Stamler1
1Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
2Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, WC1E 7HT, UK High salt intake is believed to have adverse effects on blood pressure levels in humans. Now, for the first time, it has been shown to increase blood pressure in chimpanzees (pages 1009−1016).
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