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Here, we analyze the impact of a moderate dietary sodium restriction on microbiome composition and immunophenotype in patients with PA.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Prospective two-stage clinical trial including two subgroups: 15 treatment-naive PA patients compared to matched normotensive controls; and 31 PA patients on mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist treatment before and three months after sodium restriction. Patients underwent blood pressure measurements, laboratory tests, analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells via flow cytometry and microbiome analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We observed a higher percentage of Tregs in treatment-naive PA patients (p = 0.0303), while the abundance of <jats:italic>Bacteroides uniformis<\/jats:italic> was higher in PA patients compared to normotensive controls (p = 0.00027) and the abundance of <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic> species however was higher in the subgroup of\u00a0normotensive controls (p = 0.0290). Sodium restriction was accompanied by a\u00a0decrease in pro-inflammatory Tc17 cells in male patients (p = 0.0081, females p\u00a0= 0.3274). <jats:italic>Bacteroides uniformis<\/jats:italic> abundance was higher in female patients (0.01230, p = 0.0016) and decreased upon sodium restriction (0.002309, p\u00a0= 0.0068).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Dietary sodium restriction in patients with PA modulates the peripheral immune cell composition toward a less inflammatory phenotype. 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