ReviewJournal of physiology and biochemistry2016
The role of dietary potassium in hypertension and diabetes.
Review in Journal of physiology and biochemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07025928 (Salt Intake and Blood Pressure Control in Adults With Essential Hypertension), which is not on this map. Cited by 48 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Salt Intake and Blood Pressure Control in Adults With Essential Hypertension
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.
- Dietary patterns and hypertension in Chinese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- The power of TOPMed imputation for the discovery of Latino-enriched rare variants associated with type 2 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2023Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Potassium Intake and the Risk of Stroke.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2016Pooled it
- Potassium Magnesium Citrate Is Superior to Potassium Chloride in Reversing Metabolic Side Effects of Chlorthalidone.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2023Trial
- Daily intake of non-fried potato does not affect markers of glycaemia and is associated with better diet quality compared with refined grains: a randomised, crossover study in healthy adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2020Trial
- Association between tomato consumption and prehypertension among Korean adults: finding from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study.The British journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- The exquisite link between potassium homeostasis regulation and cardiovascular health: exploration and analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- The Comparative Effects of White Potato and White Rice Consumption on Measures of Cardiometabolic Health in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Features of Metabolic Syndrome.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- The association between urinary and dietary potassium and diabetic microvascular complications: insights from UK Biobank data.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- Sodium salt substitution for blood pressure in adults with diabetes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Coordinated Regulation of Renal Glucose Reabsorption and Gluconeogenesis by mTORC2 and Potassium.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a LASSO logistic regression based nomogram for predicting live births in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Metals on the Menu-Analyzing the Presence, Importance, and Consequences.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A cross-sectional analysis of the PURE study on minerals intake among Malaysian adult population with hypertension.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association between circulating micronutrient pattern, glycemic control, and insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes mellitus.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2024Observational
- Immunomodulation through Nutrition Should Be a Key Trend in Type 2 Diabetes Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Association between Dietary Potassium Intake and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in U.S. Adults.International journal of endocrinology · 2024Article
- Association between dietary mineral intakes and urine flow rate: data from the 2009-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- High-throughput characterization of the effect of sodium chloride and potassium chloride on 31 lactic acid bacteria and their co-cultures.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Potassium is an essential mineral which plays major roles for the resting membrane potential and the intracellular osmolarity. In addition, for several years, it has been known that potassium also affects endothelial and vascular smooth muscle functions and it has been repeatedly shown that an increase in potassium intake shifts blood pressure to a more preferable level. Meanwhile, the blood pressure lowering effects of potassium were presented in several intervention trials and summarized in a handful of meta-analyses. Furthermore, accumulating epidemiological evidence from, especially, the last decade relates low dietary potassium intake or serum potassium levels to an increased risk for insulin resistance or diabetes. However, intervention trials are required to confirm this association. So, in addition to reduction of sodium intake, increasing dietary potassium intake may positively affect blood pressure and possibly also glucose metabolism in many populations. This concise review not only summarizes the studies linking potassium to blood pressure and diabetes but also discusses potential mechanisms involved, like vascular smooth muscle relaxation and endothelium-dependent vasodilation or stimulation of insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells, respectively.
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