ReviewCurrent nutrition reports2021
Dietary Sodium 'Controversy'-Issues and Potential Solutions.
Review in Current nutrition reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Population-level salt intake in the WHO European Region in 2022: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Camel (International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Research on dietary sodium with invalid methods does not advance scientific understanding.Nutrition & metabolism · 2026Article
- Correspondence on 'Estimated sodium intake and premature ventricular complexes: data from the population-based Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage study' by Economou LundebergHeart (British Cardiac Society) · 2025Article
- Integrity in research to maintain public trust. A critique of the manuscript by Vats V and coll. published in the Irish J Med Sci 2024; 193: 1787-95.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- Misinformation surrounding sodium reduction for blood pressure: content analysis of Japanese posts on X.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Weak research on dietary sodium should not generate strong conclusions on a major public health policy.Journal of human hypertension · 2023Article
- Dietary counseling to reduce moderate sodium intake. Concerns about the methods, evidence and feasibility of lowering sodium intake.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- 2022 World Hypertension League, Resolve To Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension dietary sodium (salt) global call to action.Journal of human hypertension · 2023Review
- Comment on Hogas et al. Salt, Not Always a Cardiovascular Enemy? A Mini-Review and Modern Perspective.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Mechanism-based strategies to prevent salt sensitivity and salt-induced hypertension.Clinical science (London, England : 1979) · 2022Article
- Dietary sodium reduction in Canada: more action is needed to reach the 2025 global targets.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
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Abstract
purpose of reviewHigh dietary sodium is estimated to be the leading dietary risk for death attributed to 1.8 million deaths in 2019. There are uniform recommendations to reduce sodium consumption based on evidence that increased dietary sodium is responsible for approximately a third of the prevalence of hypertension, and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials show that sodium reduction lowers blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and total mortality. Nevertheless, there is a perception that the beneficial effect of reducing dietary sodium is controversial. We provide experiential evidence relating to some sources of the controversy and propose potential solutions. RECENT
findingsInappropriate research methodology, lack of rigor in research, conflicts of interest and commercial bias, questions of professional conduct, and lack of policies to protect public interests are likely to contribute to the controversy about reducing dietary sodium. There is a failure to protect policies to reduce dietary sodium from nonscientific threats. Significant efforts need to be made to ensure the integrity of nutritional research and maintain public trust.
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