more data on salt

the large PURE study (100 000 people or so) has just reported at the ESC that population based sodium restriction makes very little sense in most countries and only really is effective in those people with hypertension , a sodium intake of more than 5 g /day and in older adults.  For most countries in the study the average intake was less than 5g /day. They did however confirm the linear relationship between salt intake and blood pressure though. Ah well, back to the crisps! sadian
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