Eating too much salt doesn’t just raise blood pressure—it also makes strokes more likely and heart failure worse.

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Links between dietary salt intake, renal salt handling, blood pressure, and cardiovascular diseases.

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2005 Apr

Eating too much salt makes your heart work harder and damages your blood vessels, which increases your chances of having a stroke and makes heart failure worse.

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Links between dietary salt intake, renal salt handling, blood pressure, and cardiovascular diseases.

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DOI: 10.1152/PHYSREV.00056.2003

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