date:Jan 09, 2019
of Physiology, Heart and Circulatory Physiology, the study looked simultaneously at young males and female salt-sensitive rats, bred to become hypertensive in response to a high-salt diet. More recently, male rats have been shown to also have significant blood pressure response to a high-fat diet.
Since women are more likely to be obese than men and the association between increases in body weight and blood pressure is stronger in women, we wanted to see if the same response occurs in the femal