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Figure 1 Decreased baroreceptor sensitivity in patients with chronic heart failure can worsen cardiac function by increasing renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and sympathetic activity, enhancing proximal fluid reabsorption, impairing aldosterone escape, and blunting the response to natriuretic peptides. Na = sodium.
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