scholarly journals The relationship between the use of blood pressure medication, a low‐sodium diet, and health and nutrition literacy among Community‐dwelling hypertensive Older Adults

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Jones ◽  
Heather Young ◽  
Lisa Miller
Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 964
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Juraschek ◽  
Courtney L. Millar ◽  
Abby Foley ◽  
Misha Shtivelman ◽  
Alegria Cohen ◽  
...  

Reduced sodium meal plans are recommended by the Centers of Disease Control to lower blood pressure in older adults; however, this strategy has not been tested in a clinical trial. The Satter House Trial of Reduced Sodium Meals (SOTRUE) was an individual-level, double-blind, randomized controlled pilot study of adults living in a congregate living facility subsidized by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Adults over age 60 years ate 3 isocaloric meals with two snacks daily for 14 days. The meal plans differed in sodium density (<0.95 vs. >2 mg/kcal), but were equivalent in potassium and macronutrients. Seated systolic BP (SBP) was the primary outcome, while urine sodium-creatinine ratio was used to measure compliance. Twenty participants were randomized (95% women; 95% white; mean age 78 ± 8 years), beginning in 7 October 2019. Retention was 100% with the last participant ending 4 November 2019. Mean baseline SBP changed from 121 to 116 mmHg with the typical sodium diet (−5 mmHg; 95% CI: −18, 8) and from 123 to 112 mmHg with the low sodium diet (−11 mmHg; 95% CI: −15.2, −7.7). Compared to the typical sodium meal plan, the low sodium meal plan lowered SBP by 4.8 mmHg (95% CI: −14.4, 4.9; p = 0.31) and urine sodium-creatinine ratio by 36% (−36.0; 95% CI: −60.3, 3.4; p = 0.07), both non-significant. SOTRUE demonstrates the feasibility of sodium reduction in federally mandated meal plans. A longer and larger study is needed to establish the efficacy and safety of low sodium meals in older adults.


1980 ◽  
Vol 238 (6) ◽  
pp. H889-H894 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Munoz-Ramirez ◽  
R. E. Chatelain ◽  
F. M. Bumpus ◽  
P. A. Khairallah

In Sprague-Dawley rats with unilateral renal artery stenosis and an intact contralateral kidney, administration of a low-sodium diet did not prevent the development of hypertension. Despite an elevated blood pressure, hyponatremia, marked activation of the renin-angiotensin system, and increased hematocrit values, only 10% of the rats showed lesions of malignant hypertension. Systolic blood pressures of one- and two-kidney sham-operated rats fed a low-sodium diet were significantly higher than that of normotensive controls fed a normal diet. Uninephrectomy did not reduce plasma renin activity. The low-sodium diet increased plasma renin activity to about the same level in one- and two-kidney normotensive rats. However, the increase in plasma renin activity elicited by dietary sodium restriction was markedly less in one-kidney Goldblatt hypertension. Systolic blood pressure reached similar levels in one- and two-kidney Goldblatt hypertensive rats fed a low-sodium diet. These data indicate that a decrease in sodium intake does not prevent the development of two-kidney Goldblatt hypertension.


1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 815-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rosenberg ◽  
Alfred E. Rosenthal ◽  
Milton B. Rosenbluth

2011 ◽  
Vol 301 (4) ◽  
pp. R1169-R1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy K. L. Banes-Berceli ◽  
Hind Al-Azawi ◽  
Daniel Proctor ◽  
Harvey Qu ◽  
Dominic Femminineo ◽  
...  

Janus kinase (JAK) 2 is activated by ANG II in vitro and in vivo, and chronic blockade of JAK2 by the JAK2 inhibitor AG-490 has been shown recently to attenuate ANG II hypertension in mice. In this study, AG-490 was infused intravenously in chronically instrumented rats to determine if the blunted hypertension was linked to attenuation of the renal actions of ANG II. In male Sprague-Dawley rats, after a control period, ANG II at 10 ng·kg−1·min−1 was infused intravenously with or without AG-490 at 10 ng·kg−1·min−1 iv for 11 days. ANG II infusion (18 h/day) increased mean arterial pressure from 91 ± 3 to 168 ± 7 mmHg by day 11. That response was attenuated significantly in the ANG II + AG-490 group, with mean arterial pressure increasing only from 92 ± 5 to 127 ± 3 mmHg. ANG II infusion markedly decreased urinary sodium excretion, caused a rapid and sustained decrease in glomerular filtration rate to ∼60% of control, and increased renal JAK2 phosphorylation; all these responses were blocked by AG-490. However, chronic AG-490 treatment had no effect on the ability of a separate group of normal rats to maintain normal blood pressure when they were switched rapidly to a low-sodium diet, whereas blood pressure fell dramatically in losartan-treated rats on a low-sodium diet. These data suggest that activation of the JAK/STAT pathway is critical for the development of ANG II-induced hypertension by mediating its effects on renal sodium excretory capability, but the physiological control of blood pressure by ANG II with a low-salt diet does not require JAK2 activation.


1990 ◽  
Vol 322 (9) ◽  
pp. 569-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Grimm ◽  
James D. Neaton ◽  
Patricia J. Elmer ◽  
Kenneth H. Svendsen ◽  
Julie Levin ◽  
...  

1984 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. De Keijzer ◽  
A. P. Provoost ◽  
E. D. Wolff ◽  
W. J. Kort ◽  
I. M. Weijma ◽  
...  

1. In an experimental model of post-renal transplantation hypertension in rats, we studied the effect of a reduction of sodium intake on the development of this type of hypertension. 2. Systolic blood pressure, plasma- renin concentration and renal function were measured regularly in recipients of an allogeneic kidney transplant that had previously undergone active immunological enhancement. 3. Transplant recipients on a normal diet showed a rise in systolic blood pressure during the second week after transplantation. The systolic blood pressure of recipients on a low sodium diet remained normotensive throughout the 15 weeks follow-up period. 4. The plasma renin concentration was low in the hypertensive recipients on a normal diet, as compared with unilaterally nephrectomized controls. Although the plasma renin concentration of recipients on a low sodium diet fell below that of unilaterally nephrectomized controls on a low sodium diet, it was higher than that of recipients on a normal diet. 5. The renal function of transplant recipients was greatly reduced compared with that of control rats. The glomerular filtration rate was reduced to a greater extent than the effective renal plasma flow. 6. In a separate experiment it was revealed that a similar reduction in the glomerular filtration rate of kidneys permanently damaged by temporary ischaemia did not result in an increase in the systolic blood pressure. 7. Survival up to 6 weeks after transplantation was the same for both groups of recipients. Recipients on a low sodium diet, however, showed a better 15 weeks survival, probably owing to the absence of hypertension in this group. 8. The prevention of the development of hypertension by means of a reduction of sodium intake, points to an involvement of sodium retention in this post-transplantation hypertension model.


2017 ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. WALKOWSKA ◽  
M. PAWLAK ◽  
S. M. JANE ◽  
E. KOMPANOWSKA-JEZIERSKA ◽  
T. WILANOWSKI

Hypertension is a major health problem throughout the world because of its high prevalence and its association with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Two independent studies discovered a locus conferring susceptibility to essential hypertension on chromosome 2, in the 2p25 region, but the causative gene remains unknown. Grainyhead-like 1 (GRHL1) is one of the genes located in this region. Our experiments determined that the Grhl1-null mice, when fed standard diet, have the same blood pressure as their wild type littermate controls. However, we discovered that blood pressure of these mice increases following high sodium diet and decreases when they are fed low sodium diet, and similar effects were not observed in the control wild type littermates. This suggests that the Grhl1-null mice are sensitive to the development of salt-sensitive hypertension. Thus it is possible that the GRHL1 gene is involved in the regulation of blood pressure, and it may be the causative gene for the locus of susceptibility to essential hypertension in the 2p25 region.


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