Sodium Scare: Salt Influence On Blood Pressure Statistically Insignificant

Monday, September 8, 2014 - 19:40 in Health & Medicine

Though the American government now wants to control intake, another study has affirmed that claims of a link between table salt and hypertension were always on shaky ground. A new paper in the American Journal of Hypertension instead finds that increased Body Mass Index, age, and non-sodium dietary factors are bigger factors in systolic blood pressure than sodium intake.  The researchers measured the effects of sodium intake, Body Mass Index, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and non-sodium dietary factors on the blood pressure of 8,670 French adults and concluded that Body Mass Index, age, and alcohol intake were all strongly linked to blood pressure increases. read more

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