Higher salt preference in heart failure patients
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2012-02-01
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de Souza, Juli Thomaz [UNESP]
Matsubara, Luiz Shiguero [UNESP]
Menani, Jose Vanderlei [UNESP]
Matsubara, Beatriz Bojikian [UNESP]
Johnson, Alan Kim
Fratucci de Gobbi, Juliana Irani [UNESP]
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Academic Press Ltd Elsevier B.V. Ltd
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Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome that involves changes in behavioral, neural and endocrine regulatory systems. Dietary salt restriction along with pharmacotherapy is considered an essential component in the effective management of symptomatic HF patients. However, it is well recognized that HF patients typically have great difficulty in restricting sodium intake. We hypothesized that under HF altered activity in systems that normally function to regulate body fluid and cardiovascular homeostasis could produce an increased preference for the taste of salt. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the perceived palatability (defined as salt preference) of food with different concentrations of added salt in compensated chronically medicated HF patients and comparable control subjects. Healthy volunteers (n = 25) and medicated, clinically stable HF patients (n = 38, NYHA functional class II or III) were interviewed and given an evaluation to assess their preferences for different amounts of saltiness. Three salt concentrations (0.58, 0.82, and 1.16 g/100 g) of bean soup were presented to the subjects. Salt preference for each concentration was quantified using an adjective scale (unpleasant, fair or delicious). Healthy volunteers preferred the soup with medium salt concentration (p = 0.042), HF patients disliked the low concentration (p < 0.001) and preferred the high concentration of salted bean soup (p < 0.001). When compared to healthy volunteers, HF patients demonstrated a significantly greater preference for the soup with a high salt concentration (p = 0.038). It is concluded that medicated, compensated patients under chronic treatment for HF have an increased preference for salt. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved,
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Heart failure, Salt appetite, Angiotensin II, Taste preference
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Appetite. London: Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier B.V. Ltd, v. 58, n. 1, p. 418-423, 2012.