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.

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Re:Obviously.

[sjames]

Apparently, you kan't read. The very link you posted explained that it was largely due to infant mortality and lack of sanitation. It wasn't from eating egg yolks and salt and it certainly wasn't from failing to substitute transfats for toxic butter.

Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation

[buchner.johannes]

But don't ask us on Ask Slashdot. There we will tell you to do your job yourself, that your company should hire someone who has a clue and/or that you don't even understand the question.