Consuming less salt not a solution to lower your BP:
Study
New Delhi: Consuming less salt may
not lead to lower blood pressure in the long
term or save a person from hypertension, says new study.
"We saw no evidence that a diet
lower in sodium had any long-term beneficial effects on blood pressure,"
said Lynn Moore, Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of
Medicine in the US.
The new findings, presented at the
Experimental Biology 2017 meeting, being held in Chicago from April 22-26, call
into question the sodium limits recommended by the current Dietary Guidelines
for Americans.
"Our findings add to growing
evidence that current recommendations for sodium intake may be misguided,"
Moore added. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting
sodium intake to 2,300 milligrams a day for healthy people.
For the study, the researchers
followed 2,632 men and women ages 30 to 64 years old who were part of the
Framingham Offspring Study.
The participants had normal blood
pressure at the start of the study.
However, over the next 16 years, the
researchers found that the study participants who consumed less than 2,500
milligrams of sodium a day had higher blood pressure than participants who
consumed higher amounts of sodium.
The researchers also found that
people in the study who had higher intakes of potassium, calcium and magnesium
exhibited lower blood pressure over the long term.
28.04.2017
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