Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated'

An anonymous reader writes: Diagnosed with high blood pressure? If so, you were probably told to moderate or avoid the use salt in your food. Well, a new study (abstract found that salt is not associated with systolic blood pressure after controlling for other factors. The study found that BMI, age, and alcohol consumption all strongly influenced blood pressure, and concluded that maintaining a healthy body weight was the best way to counteract it. The publication of this research follows a CDC report from Tuesday decrying the amount of salt in children's diets — a report that lists high blood pressure as one of its main concerns. The debate on this issue is far from over, and it'll take years to sort out all the contradictory evidence.

Comments

I know what causes high blood pressure

[Anonymous Coward]

My wife.

Re:I know what causes high blood pressure

[RivenAleem]

I don't know about blood pressure, but she sure sets my heart a-racing ;) ;)

Re:I know what causes high blood pressure

[Jason Levine]

I seem to cause high blood pressure in my wife. Especially when I have my blood pressure taken and it is insanely low. I have the blood pressure of a marathon runner. Not the rest of the body, mind you. Just the blood pressure.

Great news, everyone!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now I can go back to ramen noodles for lunch!

Implications

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly, this indicates that the science behind anthropogenic global warming is flawed.

Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation

[ColdWetDog]

OK folks, you heard it here first.

Slashdot. Ahead of everybody, all of the time.

Just ask us.

Re: I can simply ignore all health and diet advice

[rubycodez]

cigarettes aren't necessarily bad, just don't smoke them.