A new study offers fresh evidence that current salt recommendations should be taken with, well, a grain of salt. Current guidelines now recommend that everyone should have sodium intake levels below 2300 mg per day. For many people at higher risk, including everyone over 50 years of age, sodium intake should be below 1500 mg/d. (The American Heart Association promotes the more rigorous goal of 1500 mg/d for everyone.) But a 2013 report from the Institute of Medicine, along with findings from the PURE study published last year, have raised concerns that the lower target level in particular is neither practical nor beneficial.
The new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, looks at the growing and important elderly patient population…
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