THE EFFECTS OF HIGH SALT INTAKE ON BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEMORHEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN RAT / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

High salt intake over four months caused high blood viscosity as well as hypertension in rats, reflected by the obvious increases of blood viscosity, plasma viscosity and hematocrit, and the decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate. With some vicious circle resulted from certain blood viscous factors in circulatory (especially in microcirculatory) system the high blood viscosity might relate to chronic sodium chloride toxicity and easily induce hypertension.