Self care in patients with chronic heart failure

B Riegel, CS Lee, VV Dickson - Nature reviews cardiology, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract'Heart failure self care'refers to the practices in which patients engage to maintain
their own health, and to the decisions that they make about managing signs or symptoms. In …

Dietary factors associated with hypertension

D Zhao, Y Qi, Z Zheng, Y Wang, XY Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, with an impact on
global health. Multiple studies have suggested that various dietary factors are associated …

Sodium and potassium intake and mortality among US adults: prospective data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Q Yang, T Liu, EV Kuklina, WD Flanders… - Archives of internal …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Background Several epidemiologic studies suggested that higher sodium and lower
potassium intakes were associated with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) …

The importance of population-wide sodium reduction as a means to prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke: a call to action from the American Heart Association

LJ Appel, ED Frohlich, JE Hall, TA Pearson, RL Sacco… - Circulation, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
Blood pressure (BP)-related diseases, specifically, stroke, coronary heart disease, heart
failure, and kidney disease, are leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United …

[HTML][HTML] A salt reduction of 50% in bread does not decrease bread consumption or increase sodium intake by the choice of sandwich fillings

DP Bolhuis, EHM Temme, FT Koeman, MWJ Noort… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Bread is a major contributor to sodium intake in many countries. Reducing the salt (NaCl)
content in bread might be an effective way to reduce overall sodium intake. The objectives of …

Adherence to a sodium‐restricted diet is associated with lower symptom burden and longer cardiac event‐free survival in patients with heart failure

YJ Son, Y Lee, EK Song - Journal of clinical nursing, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim. To determine whether adherence to a sodium‐restricted diet affects symptom burden
and cardiac event‐free survival in patients with heart failure. Background. The …

[HTML][HTML] Non-pharmacological aspects of blood pressure management: what are the data?

SS Hedayati, EF Elsayed, RF Reilly - Kidney international, 2011 - Elsevier
Hypertension affects 29% of US adults and is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular
morbidity and mortality. Epidemiological data support contribution of several dietary and …

Reducing salt intake in the Americas: Pan American health organization actions

B Legetic, N Campbell - Journal of health communication, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This article outlines the rationale for reducing dietary salt and some of the Pan American
Health Organization actions to facilitate reductions in dietary salt in the Americas. Excessive …

[PDF][PDF] Strategies to monitor and evaluate population sodium consumption and sources of sodium in the diet: report of a joint technical meeting convened by WHO and …

World Health Organization - 2011 - apps.who.int
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Strategies to monitor
and evaluate population sodium consumption and sources of sodium in the diet: report of a …

Evaluation of dietary habits and assessment of cardiovascular disease risk factors among Greek university students

M Chourdakis, T Tzellos, C Pourzitaki, KA Toulis… - Appetite, 2011 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was the evaluation of dietary habits in regard to cardiovascular risk
status in university students in Northern Greece. 215 students (101 males)(age 21.5±2.3 …