High salt and stroke directly linked

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High salt and stroke directly linked


WARWICK, England, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- High salt intake is unequivocally linked to stroke and heart disease, researchers in England and Italy found.

The review of 13 studies, involving more than 170,000 participants in Europe, Asia and North America, found high dietary salt intake directly linked to cardiovascular disease risk.

Researchers at World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Nutrition at the University of Warwick and the European Society of Hypertension Excellence Center at Federico II University Medical School in Naples, Italy, said habitual daily salt intake is estimated to exceed 10 grams per day in most adult populations around the world.

Cutting daily salt intake by 5 grams, they said, could reduce stroke by 23 percent and all cardiovascular disease by 17 percent, which would mean averting 1.25 million strokes and almost 3 million vascular events worldwide each year.

"We have seen reductions in the salt content of several food items, due to the collaboration between governments, public health bodies and sectors of the industry on a voluntary basis," study researcher Francesco Cappuccio of Warwick said in a statement. "However, the progress towards the recommended targets has been slow."

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/11/27/High-salt-and-stroke-directly-linked/UPI-64031259299011/

[mamaleah]

1. I thought this was already known by most?

I do use salt but I thought it was sort of common knowledge that too much can increase the risk of stroke.

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2. New generation of science grads need work, probably think they have to reprove everything

:)

[vadawg]

4. +1000

[mamaleah]

5. An attempt to justify themselves, "We need to publish a study that water is still wet!"

nt

[blindpig]

7. If not for taxonomy revisions....

there would be no Phd's in herpetology.

[vadawg]

3. +1000

[Igel]

11. Science reporting can be strange.

Often the reporter writes what s/he finds interesting or what s/he thinks the public should know, not what's new in the research. Often you miss the "why" when the "what" is pretty well known or when there's a controversy in the field that doesn't get a lot of notice outside of the field. Or simply replicates some research that's really important, forms the basis of policy decisions, but has been found to be methodologically flawed or just not sufficiently secure in its findings to justify the sweeping policy changes made or being made.

It may be that this quantifies the risk much better. Or argues with some research research showing that the risk isn't so great. Or deals with various communities in an interesting way.

[ET Awful]

6. And in other news, smoking is directly linked to cancer and

standing in the middle of the highway during rush hours is linked to car v. pedestrian accidents.

[MattBaggins]

8. Hopefully one day we can all eat steamed beetle shit

and remark to one another; on how delightful and tasty it is.

[Gwendolyn]

9. Depends on which diet doctor/plan is being worshipped at the moment.

If you like salt, you'll prefer this article from last year --

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/MARIANI/mariani-salt-essay

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10. I gave up trusting science news some time ago. I don't trust politicians or new studies

:)