July 17, 2019190717

“A low-sodium diet has a shaky foundation in heart failure, a systematic review showed. Out of more than 2,600 studies on sodium restriction in heart failure, only nine small trials with a total sample of 479 -- none of which were free from bias -- made it into an analysis by a group led by Kamal Mahtani, PhD, of the University of Oxford, England. In the end, the investigators found ‘no clinically relevant data on whether reduced dietary salt intake affected outcomes such as cardiovascular-associated or all-cause mortality, cardiovascular-associated events, hospitalization, or length of hospital stay,’ they reported online in JAMA Internal Medicine.”