Word: salt
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Defying a common belief that hypertension cannot be predicted in children, a Harvard Medical School professor has recently reported infants’ preference for salt and family histories may be risk factors for the disease...
...study, appearing in the September issue of the journal Hypertension, shows that healthy babies who had a “preferential response” to salt taste and who had at least one grandparent inflicted with hypertension had higher blood pressures than other infants...
Researched by Davidson Professor of Medicine Stephen H. Zinner and entitled “Neonatal Blood Pressure and Salt Taste Responsiveness,” the study is a culmination of over a decade of research done at hospitals in Providence...
Using an artificially-constructed rubber nipple, Zinner administered microdrops of three solutions—a “weak” salt solution, an “even weaker” salt solution and water—to 283 healthy, two-to-four-day old infants...
...majority of the babies did not suck as vigorously on the salty solution. But 20 percent of the infants had a less adverse reaction to the salt, relative to the others...