White Crystals Controversy: Sugar rather than Salt as the Etiology of Hypertension

The wrong white crystals: not salt but sugar as aetiological in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature mortality in the developed world, and hypertension is its most important risk factor. Controlling hypertension is a major focus of public health initiatives, and dietary approaches have historically focused on sodium. While the potential benefits of sodium-reduction strategies are debatable, one fact about which there is little debate is ...

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...

Renal Dysfunction, Rather Than Nonrenal Vascular Dysfunction, Mediates Salt-Induced Hypertension.

Circulation is available at http://circ.ahajournals.org DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018526 From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mississippi Center for Obesity Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson. This article is Part II of a 2-part article. Part I appears on pp 881–893. Correspondence to John E. Hall, PhD, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Univers...

An unsavory truth: sugar, more than salt, predisposes to hypertension and chronic disease.

Ferdinand et al have written a very important and insightful review article summarizing strong evidence recommending combined isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine therapy to reduce mortality and morbidity for AfricanAmericans with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction. The investigators have correctly pointed out that more genetic information is necessary to assess the impact of many othe...

Quantization as Selection Rather than Eigenvalue Problem