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If dietary salt intake is excessive, which of the following will NOT occur?

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If dietary salt intake is excessive, which of the following will NOT occur?


  1. Less ADH will be secreted
  2. The osmolarity of extracellular fluids will increase
  3. The thirst centre will be stimulated
  4. The extracellular fluid volume increases

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A: If a greater than recommended amount of salt is in the diet, more ADH will be secreted so that additional water is reclaimed from the nephron filtrate. This will tend to decrease blood osmolarity. Hence it will not occur that “less ADH will be secreted”.

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