Reduced Salt Consumption Kills says new research
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (May 4), reports that among 3,681 study subjects followed for as long as 23 years, the cardiovascular death rate was more than 50 percent higher among those on who consumed less salt.
The study found no evidence that dietary salt causes those conditions to arise.
The researchers concluded that their findings, “refute the estimates of computer model of lives saved and health care costs reduced with lower salt intake” and they do not support “the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction in salt intake at the population level.”
People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new European study.
The findings "certainly do not support the current recommendation to lower salt intake in the general population," study author Dr. Jan Staessen, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, told Reuters Health.
The researchers used data from two different studies, incorporating a total of about 3,700 Europeans who had their salt consumption measured through urine samples at the start of the studies.
Staessen and his colleagues broke the participants up into three groups: those with highest and lowest salt intakes, and those with average intake.
None of the participants had heart disease at the outset, and two thirds had normal blood pressure.
They were followed for an average of 8 years, during which researchers determined
How many of them were diagnosed with heart disease,
And in a smaller group, how many got high blood pressure.
The chance of getting heart and blood vessel diseases did not differ in the three groups. However, participants with the lowest salt intake had the highest rate of death from heart disease during the follow up (4 percent), and people who ate the most salt had the lowest (less than 1 percent).
"It's clear that one should be very careful in advocating generalized reduction in sodium intake in the population at large," Staessen said. "There might be some benefits, but there might also be some adverse effects."
According to CBS News, Belgium scientists discovered the following:
• The lowest sodium intake patients had a 56 percent greater chance of death from heart attack or stroke than the group who used salt the most frequently.
• Low sodium intake was not associated with improved health.
The findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
But we know that FDA and other agencies even our doctors recommend us reduction in salt content in our diet.
They tell us eat less salt it will reduced the chance of heart attack.
But now this is the study finding which does not support the claim.
Both are exactly opposite to each other.
A new Belgium study about salt consumption may challenge the dietary guidelines
Best solution and idea is that Reducing salt may still be a good idea for people who already have high blood pressure or who have had heart problems in the past
Suggested Reading –
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Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
Keyword Tag – Salt Blood Pressure Relation Salt intake more or less
Source –
http://jama.ama-assn.org
http://www.reuters.com
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