Eating too much salt might raise your blood pressure, but we’re not sure if cutting back on salt actually helps prevent heart problems because no big, fair studies have proven it yet.

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Recommendations on sodium intake for cardiovascular health: conviction or evidence?

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2020 Sep 14

This study says yes, eating too much salt can raise blood pressure, but we don’t really know if cutting salt a lot will keep people from having heart problems — because no big experiments have proven it yet.

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Recommendations on sodium intake for cardiovascular health: conviction or evidence?

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DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa545

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