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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...
...Zinner found that of this 20 percent, those infants who had one or more grandparents afflicted with hypertension reported strikingly higher blood pressures than the other infants, although none of the infants in the study were reported to have full-blown hypertension...
...question is ‘Are these salt-tolerant babies destined to acquire hypertension later in life?’” asked Zinner. “And if you were to remove salt from these infants’ diets, could you blunt the development of hypertension...
...Both Zinner and Rosner said they have plans to explore if their findings apply to older children...