title: Salt taste perception and relationship with blood pressure in type 2 diabetics.
abstract: Patients with type 2 diabetes (normotensives, n=59; hypertensives, n=56) and matched controls (n=60) had salt taste perception determined using graded NaCl solutions ( 0-400 mmol 1(-1)). Diabetic hypertensives, diabetic normotensives and controls differed significantly in taste threshold to NaCl recognition (F=4.4, P=0.01) and prevalence of NaCl taste insensitivity (P=0.003). Taste threshold to NaCl recognition correlated positively with duration of diabetes (r=0.402, P=0.04) and was associated with mean arterial pressure (P<0.001), the association being significant after adjustment for age (P<0.001), gender (P< 0.001), family history of hypertension ( P< 001), body mass index (P<0.01), antihypertensive medication ( P<0.01) and proteinuria ( P<0.04).
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. simeonisezuo@yahoo.com
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Isezuo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saidu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anas
authors.forename: B U
authors.initials: BU
authors.lastname: Tambuwal
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Bilbis
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D013652:Taste Threshold
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride