[The calcium dietary level modulates the development of genetic hypertension in rats]

In young male rat (Okamoto strain) hypertension develops more rapidly with a low calcium diet (0,03 per cent) and more slowly with a high calcium diet (1,2 per cent). Moreover hypertensive levels are slightly but statistically lessened after 9 months of high calcium diet. It appears that dietary calcium modulates development of genetic hypertension in the Rat.