TY - JOUR
AU - Materson, Barry
AB - Barry J. Materson, MD, MBA Dietary Sodium Chloride Reduction by Means of a Salt Substitute in China The China Salt Study Collaborative Group: Salt substi- 1 million rural Chinese suffer stroke annually. Study limitations included not removing salt-pickled foods tution: a low-cost strategy for blood pressure control from the homes prior to the study and the use of spot among rural Chinese. A randomized controlled trial. rather than 24-hour urine samples. This may have lim- J Hypertens 2007, 25: 2011– 2018. ited the magnitude of the observed changes. The authors Rating: • Of importance. take strong issue with the work of Alderman [ 1 ], which has been widely criticized but used by the media and oth- Introduction: Excess dietary sodium and defi cient dietary ers as an excuse to argue that salt limitation is harmful. potassium play an important role in hypertension, heart They conclude, “There appear to be few interventions failure, and edematous states. Effective strategies for that would so substantially and so cost effectively reduce change on a mass scale are needed. Reduction of salt the cardiovascular disease burden.” intake by use of a salt substitute might be feasible in a rural area. Editor’s comments Aims: 
TI - Clinical trials report
JF - Current Hypertension Reports
DO - 10.1007/s11906-008-0033-y
DA - 2008-10-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/clinical-trials-report-vyobiPOjYB
SP - 173
EP - 174
VL - 10
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -