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Even when people who don’t get high blood pressure from salt eat a lot more salt for 10 days, their blood pressure doesn’t go up—no matter if they’re a man or a woman.

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The study didn’t measure blood pressure, but it looked at how the body handles salt and found no signs that high salt made people’s blood pressure go up—so it supports the idea that salt doesn’t raise blood pressure in these healthy people.

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