title: Effect of a mineral salt diet on 24-h blood pressure monitoring in elderly hypertensive patients.
abstract: The influence of a mineral salt on 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring was studied in 20 elderly hypertensive subjects residing in an old peoples home. Ordinary table and cooking salt was substituted with a special Na-reduced, K-, Mg-, and l-lysine HCl-enriched mineral salt (Pansalt(R)) for 6 months. Antihypertensive therapy was uninterrupted. An ambulatory BP monitor (Suntech Accutracker) measured BP every 20 min during the day and every 30 min at night, before and 6 months after starting the diet. Nine patients (45%) decreased both systolic and diastolic BP significantly: systolic BP fell from 154.92 +/- 33.67 mm Hg to 143. 45 +/- 53.1 mm Hg (P < or = 0.01) during the daytime from 6 am to midnight; and from 139.80 +/- 32.84 mm Hg to 137.87 +/- 31.17 mm Hg (P < or = 0.01) from midnight to 6 am. Diastolic BP fell from 85.34 +/- 24.85 mm Hg to 70.29 +/- 18.31 mm Hg (P < or = 0.01) during the daytime from 6 am to midnight; and from 77.1 +/- 22.92 mm Hg to 67.76 +/- 15. 63 mm Hg (P < or = 0.01) at night. Blood pressure in the other 11 subjects showed no improvement. Heart rate also fell in the subjects, from 69.44 +/- 21.62 beats per minute (bpm) to 66.94 +/- 11.51 bpm (< or = 0.01) during the day, and from 61.28 +/- 12.82 bpm to 60.43 +/- 10.33 bpm (P < or = 0.01) during the night. It is concluded that decreased intake of Na and increased intake of both K and Mg can be useful in controlling high BP.
authors.affiliation: Chorley Institute of Hypertension, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maoz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Peleg
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zeidenstein
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Levi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D003971:Diastole; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008274:Magnesium / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011188:Potassium / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013599:Systole
chemical_list: D008274:Magnesium; D011188:Potassium