Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five due to chronic malnutrition. Stunting can be influenced by various factors, one of which is the nutritional status of pregnant women. The incidence of stunting in West Nusa Tenggara is 25.15% where West Lombok Regency has a very short category percentage of 8.64%, while the short category is 18.46%. Efforts to prevent stunting are carried out by providing counseling and inviting the public to use Family Medicinal Plants (TOGA), one of which is Moringa. These activities which were attended by pregnant women, cadres of posyandu, and mothers of infants and toddlers went smoothly and were enthusiastically welcomed by the community.

Excessive salt intake is one of the factors of high blood pressure leading to kidney disease while telmisartan is one of the antihypertensive drugs used in  therapy. Telmisartan not only blocks the angiotensin receptor, which leads to a reduction in blood pressure, but  also activates the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ), inhibits the expression of transforming growth  factor  beta-1 (TGFβ-1) and increases bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7). This experiment examines whether telmisartan increases the expression of BMP-7 in excess NaCl-induced Wistar rats. For this study, 25 male Wistars aged 2.5 to 3 months  and rats weighing 100 to 150 g  were used.They were grouped into 5, each  consists of 5 rats. Group I (G I) as the first negative control received neither NaCl nor telmisartan. G II as the second negative control received NaCl but no telmisartan. G III, IV and V received NaCl and telmisartan 3, 6 and 12 mg/kg body weight. Treatments were given every day for 8 weeks.On day 56, all rats were sacrificed by  neck dislocation and operated on to remove the kidney. BMP-7 expression  was measured by immunohistochemical technique. Data were expressed as mean ± standard error. They were analyzed by parametric (ANOVA) or nonparametric (Kruskal-Wallis) testing. A value of p ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The results showed that the expression of the intraglomerular and  extraglomerular  protein  BMP-7 was higher in the telmisartan-treated group of Wistar rats  than in the negative control group (pand<0.05). In summary, intraglomerular and extraglomerular BMP-7 protein expression was higher in  male Wistar rats treated with telmisartan and induced with 8% sodium chloride than in negative control group members.