Eating less salt might make your heart beat a little faster and change how your blood vessels respond, but it doesn’t seem to make your arteries stiffer.

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Dietary salt intake and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review of meta-analyses and dose-response evidence

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

Human

2025 Dec

This study found that eating less salt raises heart rate and makes blood vessels more flexible, but doesn’t make arteries stiffer — which is exactly what the claim says.

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Dietary salt intake and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review of meta-analyses and dose-response evidence

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DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2025.2582065

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