System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks

Friday, May 8, 2009 - 18:07 in Health & Medicine

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.

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