Lower Salt = Lower Mortality

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Lower Salt = Lower Mortality

People with the lowest intake of sodium have the lowest rates of total mortality, according to a study spanning more than 20 years published October 3, 2016 in theJournal of the American College of Cardiology[1].
The findings by Dr Nancy R Cook (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) and colleagues run counter to those of some previous studies that have found a J-curve effect, where people consuming the lowest amounts of sodium seemed also to have increased mortality or sometimes no increased risk.
“Everyone seems to agree that high levels of sodium are bad for you,” Cook told heartwire from Medscape, “but there’s a lot of controversy about the low end.”

References

  1. Cook NR, Appel LJ, Whelton PK. Sodium intake and all-cause mortality over 20 years in the Trials of Hypertension Prevention. J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 68:1609-1617. Abstract
  2. Mente A, O’Donnell MJ, Yusuf S. How robust is the evidence for recommending very low salt intake in entire populations? J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 68:1618-1621. Editorial

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