Hypertension: Salt: flawed research should not divert actions to reduce intake.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Sodium Intake and Risk of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Observational Cohort Studies.Current hypertension reports · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Health screening for emerging non-communicable disease burdens among the global poor: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa.Journal of health economics · 2021
   Article
3. The Salt Content of Lunch Meals Eaten at Danish Worksites.Nutrients · 2018
   Article
4. Role of salt intake in prevention of cardiovascular disease: controversies and challenges.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2018
   Review
5. Collecting Duct Nitric Oxide Synthase 1ß Activation Maintains Sodium Homeostasis During High Sodium Intake Through Suppression of Aldosterone and Renal Angiotensin II Pathways.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017
   Article
6. Reducing major risk factors for chronic kidney disease.Kidney international supplements · 2017
   Review
7. Salt reduction in China: a state-of-the-art review.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2017
   Review
8. Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.Lancet (London, England) · 2016
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Associations of urinary sodium excretion with cardiovascular events in individuals with and without hypertension: a pooled analysis of data from four studies.2016

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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