The research study discovered that moms who take in a great deal of salt establish high blood pressure and heart diseases.
Pregnant females who take in a great deal of salt threaten the health of their coming kids.
High- salt diet plans might lead to heart diseases and are a leading reason for death worldwide. A group of Chinese scientists used a rat design to examine the impacts of a pregnant female’s high-salt diet plan on her kids given that everyday salt usage in China is still high. The group, from China’s Guangzhou Medical University’s Third Affiliated Hospital, has actually now released their findings in the KeAi journal Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine.
According to the research study, maternal high-salt diet plans can trigger high blood pressure and heart diseases in the mom. They likewise trigger hypertension and increase the possibility that their kids might establish high blood pressure. Heart valve thickening, or heart fibrosis, frequently accompanies these conditions.
Researchers discovered that high-salt direct exposure increased the high blood pressure of mothers-to-be and their offspring, leading to heart damage. Credit: The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
Commenting on the experiment, co-corresponding author Jingsi Chen describes: “We separated the pregnant female rats into three separate groups and fed each one a diet containing a different concentration of salt (high, normal, and low). To explore the effects of a maternal high-salt diet on hypertension, we monitored the blood pressure and urine protein levels of both the mothers and their eventual offspring. We found that the blood pressure of the offspring with high salt exposure during pregnancy was higher than that of the offspring with normal salt exposure in the uterine, even if they were both fed a normal diet after weaning. This suggests that an intrauterine high salt environment already impacts the development of babies and continues to impact them as they transition into adulthood.”
To figure out the impact of a high-salt diet plan on the offspring’s heart tissue, the group evaluated particular protein levels and discovered that a high salt environment might cause heart fibrosis, which is connected with conditions such as high blood pressure and cardiac arrest. The offspring likewise had actually an increased threat of establishing hypertension in the adult years.
Chen includes: “This study shows that the harm of excessive salt intake is more profound than we thought. We should all keep our salt intake within the recommended guidelines, especially women during pregnancy.”
Reference: “Maternal high salt-diet increases offspring’s blood pressure with dysfunction of NO/PKGI signaling pathway in heart tissue” by Minshan Huang, Xiuying Li, Luwen Ren, Lin Huang, Jiahong Pan, Jinlin Yao, Lili Du, Dunjin Chen and Jingsi Chen, 14 June 2022, Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine.
DOI: 10.1016/ j.gocm.202203001
