23Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Determined Tissue Sodium in Healthy Subjects and Hypertensive Patients
23Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Determined Tissue Sodium in Healthy Subjects and Hypertensive Patients
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DOI:
10.1161/hypertensionaha.111.00566
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
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8.3
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Titze, Jens
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作者:
Kopp, Christoph;Linz, Peter;Titze, Jens
High dietary salt intake is associated with hypertension; the prevalence of salt-sensitive hypertension increases with age. We hypothesized that tissue Na+ might accumulate in hypertensive patients and that aging might be accompanied by Na+ deposition in tissue. We implemented Na-23 magnetic resonance imaging to measure Na+ content of soft tissues in vivo earlier, but had not studied essential hypertension. We report on a cohort of 56 healthy control men and women, and 57 men and women with essential hypertension. The ages ranged from 22 to 90 years. Na-23 magnetic resonance imaging measurements were made at the level of the calf. We observed age-dependent increases in Na+ content in muscle in men, whereas muscle Na+ content did not change with age in women. We estimated water content with conventional MRI and found no age-related increases in muscle water in men, despite remarkable Na+ accumulation, indicating water-free Na+ storage in muscle. With increasing age, there was Na+ deposition in the skin in both women and men; however, skin Na+ content remained lower in women. Similarly, this sex difference was found in skin water content, which was lower in women than in men. In contrast to muscle, increasing Na+ content was paralleled with increasing skin water content. When controlled for age, we found that patients with refractory hypertension had increased tissue Na+ content, compared with normotensive controls. These observations suggest that Na-23 magnetic resonance imaging could have utility in assessing the role of tissue Na+ storage for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in longitudinal studies. (Hypertension. 2013;61:635-640.) circle Online Data Supplement