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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2018 Jan 8;71(3):389–402. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.10439

Figure 4. Dietary sodium restriction restores healthy vascular aging (HVA).

Figure 4

Changes in systolic blood pressure (SBP) (top panel) and carotid-femoral pulse-wave velocity (CFPWV) (bottom panel) in post-menopausal women (black bars) and post-menopausal women and middle-aged and older men (white bars) with elevated blood pressure in response to a low sodium diet (<90 mmol/d) compared to normal sodium intake (>120 mmol/d). Individuals lacking HVA by the Framingham definition at baseline were restored to healthy vascular aging status by dietary sodium restriction in both studies, as indicated by the reductions in SBP and CFPWV from the red- to the green-shaded zone (above and below the dashed line). Reproduced from87, 183 with permission.