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The connection between salt and blood pressure

The Norwegian Health Association supports the research lab around Helge Wiig who investigates if eating too much salt causes high blood pressure. Read a popular scientific article on forskning.no.

Professor i et forskningslaboratorium
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Eivind Senneset / Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen

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Published: 15.12.2020

The full article is published in Norwegian here:

https://forskning.no/blod-nasjonalforeningen-for-folkehelsen-partner/for...

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Helge Wiig, Olav Tenstad, Tine Karlsen - We study transcapillary fluid exchange under normal conditions and in disease, for example hypertension and inflammation. Our approach is integrative and translational.