Fatal and Nonfatal Outcomes, Incidence of Hypertension, and Blood Pressure Changes in Relation to Urinary Sodium Excretion

Stolarz-Skrzypek, Katarzyna; Kuznetsova, Tatiana; Thijs, Lutgarde; Tikhonoff, Valerie; Seidlerova, Jitka; Richart, Tom; Jin, Yu; Olszanecka, Agnieszka; Malyutina, Sofia; Casiglia, Edoardo; Filipovsky, Jan; Kawecka-Jaszcz, Kalina; Nikitin, Yuri; Staessen, Jan A

doi:10.1001/jama.2011.574

Fatal and Nonfatal Outcomes, Incidence of Hypertension, and Blood Pressure Changes in Relation to Urinary Sodium Excretion

Author:

Stolarz-Skrzypek, Katarzyna

Kuznetsova, Tatiana ; Thijs, Lutgarde ; Tikhonoff, Valerie ; Seidlerova, Jitka ; Richart, Tom ; Jin, Yu ; Olszanecka, Agnieszka ; Malyutina, Sofia ; Casiglia, Edoardo ; Filipovsky, Jan ; Kawecka-Jaszcz, Kalina ; Nikitin, Yuri ; Staessen, Jan A

Keywords:

reduced dietary-sodium, scottish heart health, cardiovascular-disease, salt intake, electrolyte excretion, potassium excretion, national-health, population, mortality, risk, HYPERGENES - 201550;info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/201550, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Medicine, General & Internal, General & Internal Medicine, REDUCED DIETARY-SODIUM, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE, SALT INTAKE, NATIONAL-HEALTH, POTASSIUM, MORTALITY, RISK, POPULATION, METAANALYSIS, CONSUMPTION, Adult, Aged, Belgium, Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diet, Sodium-Restricted, Female, Humans, Hypertension, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Sodium, Sodium, Dietary, Young Adult, European Project on Genes in Hypertension (EPOGH) Investigators, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences, 42 Health sciences

Abstract:

Context Extrapolations from observational studies and short-term intervention trials suggest that population-wide moderation of salt intake might reduce cardiovascular events.