A low-sodium diet is still the best bet: study

Most research has linked high sodium consumption with greater risks of stroke and cardiovascular disease. The data “weren’t entirely convincing,” said Nancy Cook, lead author of the current study published in the journal Circulation, and a member of that expert panel. Cook is a statistician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The TOHP followed the field’s “gold-standard” technique of measuring salt consumption in 24-hour urine samples.