Objective: To provide updated, evidence-based recommendations concerning the effects of
dietary salt intake on the prevention and control of hypertension in adults (except pregnant …

The link between sodium intake and hypertension remains controversial because of
inconsistency between early epidemiologic studies, which showed a strong positive …

Dietary salt has long been recognized as a major factor affecting blood pressure such that
sodium intake is a component of lifestyle modification guidelines for control of high blood …

Abstract The International Society of Hypertension and the World Hypertension League
have developed a policy statement calling for reducing dietary salt. The policy supports the …

The need to reduce the amount of salt in the diet has remained a very controversial issue in
spite of strong evidence from animal experimental and human studies that increased salt …

Hypertension has been related to both obesity and a high salt intake. Evidence for the
associations of blood pressure with body weight and dietary salt intake is summarized. In …

In numerous epidemiologic, clinical, and experimental studies, dietary sodium intake has
been linked to blood pressure, and a reduction in dietary salt intake has been documented …

Around the world, we are eating far more salt than we need, on average 10 g of salt per day,
1 almost double the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended maximum intake of 5 …

Hypertension is a risk factor for cardiovascular and renal organ damage. Environmental
conditions affect the development of high blood pressure (BP), although genetic influences …

Nutritional-nonpharmacological approaches for the treatment and prevention of
hypertension are of great interest. Sodium reduction is one of the primary methods …