Salt causing hbp is another myth foisted on Americans by the diet Nazis looking for ways to make money.
There maybe a very few people who should restrict their salt intake.
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There are a lot of things that can increase vascular resistance (e.g. specific circulating factors that affect the contractile state of the small muscular blood vessels that determine vascular resistance), and a lot a ways cardiac output can be affected, including increased blood volume secondary to salt intake in susceptible individuals.
The bottom line is that it is complex, and there are a lot of different reasons people can have high blood pressure. The sensitivity to salt intake is definitely affected by genetics. There are rats that get high blood pressure when exposed to dietary salt, but normal rats don't.
Anyway, I agree with you that salt probably doesn't have much of an effect on people with normal baseline blood pressure. There are those who have to think about this though.