Mercury elevates systolic blood pressure
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Hiroki Takahashi; Hiroko Nomiyama; Kazuo Nomiyama
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Five groups of 18 male spontaneously hypertensive rats (total: 90) were fed pelleted food containing mercuric chloride (HgCl 2 ) at mercury dose levels of 0, 1, 3, 10, and 30 g/g over a period of 12 weeks. An age-related increase in blood pressure was observed in all groups receiving mercury. Our da