Salt—too much or too little?

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10043, 2016, Pages 439-440

  O'Brien, Eoin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIGH SODIUM INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM EXCRETION; SODIUM INTAKE;

SALT INTAKE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

HUMANS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 85027950986     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30510-4     Document Type: Note

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