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Hypertension, Vol 8, 56-61, Copyright © 1986 by American Heart Association

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Effect of dietary chloride on salt-sensitive and renin-dependent hypertension

SA Whitescarver, BJ Holtzclaw, JH Downs, CE Ott, JR Sowers and TA Kotchen

We have previously reported that 1) selective dietary sodium loading (without chloride) does not produce hypertension in rats of the Dahl salt-sensitive strain (DS) and 2) selective chloride loading (without sodium) lowers plasma renin activity in the intact Sprague-Dawley rat maintained on a low NaCl diet. The present study examined the effect of selective dietary chloride loading on two models of hypertension: the DS and the renin-dependent one-kidney, one clip Sprague-Dawley rat. The DS were pair-fed (n = 7/group) a "normal" NaCl, a high NaCl (4%), or a "normal" sodium-high chloride diet for 11 weeks. From Week 7 until the end of the experiment, the high NaCl-fed animals had higher (p less than or equal to 0.05) blood pressures than animals fed either the normal NaCl or normal sodium-high chloride diet, which were not different from each other. Thus, in the DS, hypertension depends on high dietary intakes of both sodium and chloride. In one-kidney, one clip hypertensive rats, selective chloride loading failed to lower plasma renin activity (9 +/- 1 vs 7 +/- 1 ng angiotensin I/ml/hr) or to prevent hypertension (160 +/- 10 vs 166 +/- 9 mm Hg). Thus, selective dietary chloride loading (without sodium) does not alter blood pressure in either salt-sensitive or renin-dependent hypertension.

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