Salt and Cardiovascular Disease: Does Acute Salt-Sensitivity Convey Greater Cardiovascular Risk?

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/491042

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Salt intake of Australian adults is 10X more than required. Further, salt intake in very young children is alarmingly high secondary to high consumption of salty snacks and processed food. High dietary salt intake has been associated with increased cardiovascular disease and death. We will examine the cardiovascular risks for adults and children on a high salt diet and examine whether switching to a low salt diet ameliorates the high blood pressure and heart disease caused by high salt diets

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $597,578.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical molecular engineering of nucleic acids and proteins

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cardiac hypertrophy | Cardiovascular disease | Dietary sodium | Hypertension | cardiovascular disease | hypertension | salt-sensitive hypertension

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