title: Dahl salt-sensitive rats and human essential hypertension.
abstract: At Brookhaven we have two new strains of rats with opposing genetic predispositions to hypertension: one strain [inbred Dahl salt-sensitive (Dahl-S)] develops severe hypertension on a high-salt diet, while the other [inbred Dahl salt-resistant (Dahl-R)] responds only mildly, if at all. The striking observation is that, unlike other salt-sensitive hypertension-prone rats, inbred Dahl-S rats remain normotensive on a low-salt diet. The observation that hypertension in the inbred Dahl-S, but not the inbred Dahl-R, rat develops only after exposure to a high-salt diet indicates that the development of hypertension in the inbred Dahl-S strain is not spontaneous and that the genetic substrate is a critical determinant of the hazard of excess salt in the diet.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Iwai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heine
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains / Q000235:genetics*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride