Salt has played an important role in the human diet since earliest times. However, increases
in the availability and consumption of dietary salt have raised concerns that excessive …

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 …

Salt intake has been shown to be the most important determinant of blood pressure
differences both between populations and within populations, as well as the main …

The goal of this essay is to examine the evidence relating salt intake to blood pressure in
humans. Despite studies involving many thousands of subjects and patients performed in …

Increasing evidence from animal, epidemiological, intervention studies and treatment trials
all clearly point to the important role that salt intake plays in determining blood pressure …

It is now generally accepted that there is a direct positive correlation between dietary salt
and arterial pressure. Thus, the beneficial effects of dietary salt reduction are, at least in part …

The evidence relating blood pressure to salt intake in humans originates from population
studies and randomized clinical trials of interventions on dietary salt intake. Estimates from …

Salt is one of the most important determinants of high blood pressure and increased
cardiovascular risk worldwide. However, a high salt intake has other adverse effects beyond …

Publisher Summary Salt (sodium chloride) is the primary cause of raised blood pressure and
is largely responsible for the rise in blood pressure that occurs in almost all adults as they …

High dietary sodium has been adduced as a cause of hypertension and its target organ
damage for millennia; yet careful observations using sophisticated techniques have …