Table 1.

Morphometric parameters measured after eight weeks of treatment.

	Wistar	SHR	SHR-Salt	SHR-Salt-S
Animals (n)	9	8	9	9
Ventricles (g)	1.42±0.03	1.14±0.03*	1.24±0.03*†	1.15±0.02*‡
Ventricles/BW (mg/g)	2.90±0.06	3.44±0.07*	3.68±0.07*†	3.46±0.05*‡
Lungs (g)	3.10±0.09	2.59±0.10*	2.62±0.11*	2.72±0.10*
Lungs/BW (mg/g)	6.10±0.2	7.85±0.3*	7.64±0.3*	8.21±0.3*
Lungs H2O(%)	80.8±0.3	81.2±0.3	80.4±0.4	80.3±0.3
Kidney (g)	2.91±0.06	2.52±0.05*	2.61±0.05*	2.56±0.04*
Kidney/BW (mg/g)	6.71±0.11	7.65±0.12*	7.61±0.06*	7.72±0.09*

Data are presented as the mean±SEM

^*P<0.05 vs Wistar; † P<0.05 vs SHR; ‡ P<0.05 vs SHR-Salt