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Season 10: Don't get Salty Under Pressure
Welcome Back to season 10 home audience! To Celebrate a decade of exploring medicine in every way possible, Dr's J and Santhosh will be going back to being basic, but extra in this episode on high blood pressure, aka hypertension! Along the way, they cover soft and hard pulses, ancient egypt, diagnostic poetry, Brights disease, french dietary studies, salt nephritis, the ultimate micromanager, FDR and giraffe blood pressure similarities, normal blood pressure ranges, stages of hypertension, nightly dipping, lie detectors and emotional response, dart gun medication and more! So sit back, stay calm and relax as we get salty about hypertension!
Further Reading
MacGregor GA, de Wardener HE. Salt, Diet and Health: Neptune's Poisoned Chalice: The Origins of High Blood Pressure. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 1998. [Google Scholar]
https://academic.oup.com/ajh/article/10/S1/2S/194309
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31641769/
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