So why, then, has reducing salt, or sodium chloride, and other sources of sodium been the main focus of both treatment and public health advice for people hoping to avoid the serious health consequences of high blood pressure, or essential hypertension, as it is called medically?
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The incidence of morbidity and mortality significantly decreases when hypertension is diagnosed early and is treated properly . Although hypertension may occur secondary to other disease processes, more than 90 per cent of patients have essential hypertension, a disorder of unknown origin affecting the blood-pressure regulating mechanism.
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CYP2C8 * 3 ( 30411A > G, rs10509681, Lys399Arg ) converts arachidonic acid to 11, 12-EET and 14, 15-EET with a turnover rate less than half that of wild type CYP2C8; in a single recent report, male but not female carriers of the CYP2C8 * 3 allele had an increased risk of essential hypertension.
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CYP2C19 * 2 ( 19154G > A, rs4244285, Il264Met ) and CYP2C19 * 3 ( 17948G > A, rs4986893, His212X ) are loss-of-function null alleles; carriers of the CYP2C19 * 3 but not the CYP2C19 * 2 allele showed a " reduced " risk of developing essential hypertension in a large Korean population study.
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Biofeedback therapists use EMG biofeedback when treating anxiety and worry, chronic pain, computer-related disorder, essential hypertension, headache ( migraine, mixed headache, and tension-type headache ), low back pain, physical rehabilitation ( cerebral palsy, incomplete spinal cord lesions, and stroke ), temporomandibular joint dysfunction ( TMD ), torticollis, and fecal incontinence, urinary incontinence, and pelvic pain.
