If you're 65 or older and have had a stroke or high blood pressure, switching to a special salt that has less sodium and more potassium might help lower your chances of having another stroke.

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Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS)-A large-scale cluster randomized controlled trial.

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2017 Jun

This study gave older adults with high blood pressure or past strokes a special salt that has less sodium and more potassium, and then watched to see if they had fewer strokes. It’s the exact same idea as the claim, and it was tested in a very careful way.

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Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS)-A large-scale cluster randomized controlled trial.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2017.02.033

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