A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Physicians found that: the heart Adding salt to foods in small quantities is associated with a lower risk of heart disease, heart failure, and ischemic heart disease. the salt It improves your heart health, according to “scitechdaily”.
“We found that people who eat less salt are often less likely to develop heart disease, regardless of lifestyle factors and pre-existing diseases,” the researchers said.
They also found that when patients combined the DASH diet with a low frequency of salt addition, they had a lower risk of heart disease. This is beneficial because reducing salt in food, not eliminating salt completely, is a factor that helps prevent.
The researchers assessed whether the frequency of adding salt to foods was associated with the risk of heart disease in 176,570 participants from the UK Biobank. The study also looked at the relationship between the frequency of adding salt to foods and the DASH diet as it relates to heart disease risk.
The study primarily used a questionnaire to collect data on how often salt is added to foods, not including salt used in cooking.
Participants were also asked if they had made any significant changes to their diet in the past five years, in addition to completing 1-5 rounds of 24-hour nutritional recall over a three-year period.
The DASH diet was developed to prevent high blood pressure by limiting consumption of red and processed meat and focusing on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, nuts and legumes.
While the DASH diet has reported benefits in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, a recent clinical trial found that combining the DASH diet with sodium reduction was more beneficial for certain cardiac biomarkers, including heart injury, stress and inflammation.
Data on cardiac events were collected through medical histories, hospital admissions data, questionnaires, and death registry data.