Three papers and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine are sure to throw fresh fuel on the ongoing fiery debate over sodium recommendations. Current guidelines recommend that people should limit their intake of sodium to 1.5 to 2.4 grams per day, but these recommendations are based on projections and have never been tested in clinical trials or other large studies.
Two papers from the ongoing Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study offer fresh evidence against the low sodium recommendations.
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