AUGUST 10. LONDON - A recent British study has been directed towards finding more links between the intake of dietary salt and high blood pressure in humans.
The study was carried out by top researchers at the University of Cambridge and they concentrated their research on one possible genetic factor that is responsible to make people vulnerable accordingly to the effects of intake of salt on their blood pressure.
The possible genetic factor was referred to variants of a gene for angiotensinogen, which is a molecule that is capable of raising the blood pressure by tightening the arteries in a human body.
According to the study, which involved more than 11,000 European women and men, no relationship was found between the variants of gene and the effect of salt on human blood pressure. They found that the subjects, who took in more salt and excreted, had higher blood pressure regardless of their genetic combination.
Dr. Paul R. Conlin, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, wrote in the editorial of the report stating that he noticed that people were more likely to have elevated blood pressure due to more consumption of salt. According to him, this is independent of their genotype. However, he ruled out chances of other genes other than angiotensinogen to influence blood pressure on salt intake.
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