My brother is on a low salt diet due to high blood pressure.
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Part of the problem is that extremely low salt diets come with substantial practical difficulties.
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A low salt diet results in a greater improvement in blood pressure in people with hypertension.
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In the past a standard dietary treatment for those suffering from liver disease or damage was a low protein, high carbohydrate, moderate fat and low salt diet.
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There, usually with her good friend, 92-year-old Creighton Frampton, she enjoyed breaking the rules of the low fat / low salt diets that rule the lives of so many elderly.
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The nurses asked standard questions used to monitor heart patients, including activity, shortness of breath, weight changes, compliance with a low salt diet and drug therapy, as well as swelling of the feet.
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A previous claim, which came from a 2012 article published by the British Journal " Heart ", stated that a low salt diet increased the risk of death in those with congestive heart failure.
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Taken together, a low salt diet ( median of approximately 4.5 g / day-approx 1800 mg Sodium ) in hypertensive people resulted in a decrease in systolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg, and in diastolic blood pressure by 2.70 mmHg.
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Mice depleted of Cyp4a10 maintain normal blood pressure on a low salt diet but become hypertensive on normal or high salt diets; this paradoxical result appears due to a decrease in kidney levels of Cyp2C44 caused by the loss of Cyp4a10.
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While life evolved in the ocean, where there is plenty of salt, I agree that it does seem odd that, once animals moved onto land where salt is scarce, they weren't able to evolve to better match this low salt diet.