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Reducing sodium intake by any amount can lower blood pressure over the long term â and may benefit everyone, including people with normal blood pressure, new research shows. While the link between consuming less-salty foods and lower blood pressure is well established, researchers wanted to understand the exact nature of the link over a range of daily sodium amounts, not simply the results of eating a high-salt versus low-salt diet. After analyzing 85 studies that followed participants for up to three years, they found any reduction in sodium decreases both systolic blood pressure (the top number in a reading) and diastolic pressure (the bottom number). This trend was seen across a spectrum of daily sodium levels, with no evidence there was a bottom threshold in benefit. ....
Is This Treatable Condition Causing Your High Blood Pressure? Many doctors are overlooking this potential source of hypertension. Anyone diagnosed with high blood pressure knows the standard advice: Lose weight, exercise more, change your diet. But it’s likely that relatively few people have heard another suggestion: Make sure you’re treating your aldosteronism. It turns out that this condition which results when the adrenal glands produce too much of the hormone aldosterone is sometimes at the root of high blood pressure. Researchers at three schools the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University believe aldosteronism itself might be a lot more common in the general population than people think. But the researchers say relatively few doctors are testing for the disease. ....