The Claim

In hypertensive adults, a three-year low-sodium salt intervention is associated with a reduction in systolic blood pressure, but no significant gene-diet interaction is observed for changes in diastolic blood pressure.

Source: Association between low-sodium salt intervention and long-term blood pressure changes is modified by ENaC genetic variation: a gene-diet interaction analysis in a randomized controlled trial.

What the research says

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Correlation
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In plain English

If people with high blood pressure switch to a low-sodium salt for three years, their top blood pressure number (systolic) tends to go down—but their genes don’t seem to change how much their bottom number (diastolic) changes.

See the scientific wording

In hypertensive adults, low-sodium salt intervention over three years is associated with a reduction in systolic blood pressure, but no significant gene-diet interaction was observed for diastolic blood pressure changes.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Association between low-sodium salt intervention and long-term blood pressure changes is modified by ENaC genetic variation: a gene-diet interaction analysis in a randomized controlled trial.

    The study found that using low-sodium salt for three years lowered blood pressure in people with high blood pressure, especially the top number (systolic), and that genes didn’t affect the bottom number (diastolic) — just like the claim said.

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