Eating more salt doesn't seem to raise your chance of getting stomach cancer much, based on a big review of many studies.

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Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

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2022 May

The study looked at salt intake and found that total sodium intake doesn't have a clear link to stomach cancer risk, which matches what the claim says.

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Salt intake and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis within the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project

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DOI: 10.1007/s10552-022-01565-y

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