Does reducing your salt intake make you live longer?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 793-798

  Walker, Jay ^a   MacKenzie, Alastair David ^a   Dunning, Joel ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Diet; Hypertension; Salt

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLICATION; RISK REDUCTION; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM RESTRICTION;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIET, SODIUM-RESTRICTED; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM, DIETARY;

EID: 37349058876     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2007.165415     Document Type: Article

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