Gastroenteritis and Hypertension

There is provocative new research from the British Medical Journal this week. They have made a strong connection between EColi infection and subsequent development of hypertension.  I'll try to break it down here into the "cliff notes" but to read the entire study go here to BMJ.

We know that most hypertension diagnoses have no etiology (cause).  We also know that in the U.S. escherichia coli