Potassium reduces cerebral hemorrhage and death rate in hypertensive rats, even when blood pressure is not lowered.
- 1 May 1985
- journal article
- abstracts
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hypertension
- Vol. 7 (3_pt_2), I110-4
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.7.3_pt_2.i110
Abstract
In a study of the effects of K+ in stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats, adding K+ to normal chow was found to reduce the mortality from 83% to 2%, a 98% reduction. An 86% reduction in mort...Keywords
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