Relationship Between Serum Sodium and Blood Pressure in Morbid Obesity
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. Part A: Theory and Practice
- Vol. 7 (7) , 933-937
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10641968509077239
Abstract
We evaluated the relationship between blood pressure and serum sodium level in morbidly obese patients. Forty patients had at least 2-3 blood pressure measurements and two measurements of serum sodium. The correlation between serum sodium and systolic blood pressure was 0.66 (p < 0.01). The correlation between diastolic pressure and serum sodium was 0.40 (p < 0.025). Our observation linking serum sodium to blood pressure provides a lead to study mechanisms common to regulation of blood sodium and blood pressure in morbid obesity.Keywords
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