Journal of hypertension
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Journal of hypertension · Feb 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialDietary sodium influences the effect of mental stress on heart rate variability: a randomized trial in healthy adults.
Dietary sodium influences intermediate physiological traits in healthy adults independent of changes in blood pressure. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that dietary sodium affects cardiac autonomic modulation during mental stress. ⋯ We conclude that autonomic control of HRV at rest and during mental stress is altered by dietary sodium in healthy normotensive young adult men and women.