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Article: Reducing Dietary Sodium Lowers Blood Pressure.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- January 28, 2001
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2001 JAN 28 - (NewsRx.com) -- Sodium reduction combined with either a typical U.S. diet or the "DASH" diet, which is rich in vegetables, fruit, and low-fat dairy products, and low in total and saturated fat, substantially lowered blood pressure in persons with high blood pressure and persons with higher than optimal blood pressure, according to the results of a study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The DASH-Sodium study found that the lowest blood pressure levels were in those eating sodium levels much lower than the currently recommended maximum of 2,400 milligrams a day while also ...