Excess salt is dangerous like smoking addiction

The team of Emorry University (Atlanta, USA) led by Professor Viola Vaccarino studied the effects of sodium in the diet on coronary arteries by measuring the 'coronary flux reserve index ' (coronary flow). reserve, abbreviated to CFR.

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According to Medprotalru, medical scientists find that if salt intake increases, the risk of angina (stenocardia) increases, similar to cigarette addiction. The results of the study are published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .

Too much salt in your diet increases your risk of angina.

The team followed 143 male twins over 50 years old. Based on the nutrition surveys, they determined the amount of salt in the food of the subjects in the past 12 months, then increased the amount of salt in the diet of one of the twins, in which people the other is a reference for comparison.

Research results show that sodium intake in food significantly reduces the CFR index. When increasing 1 gram of sodium (equivalent to 2.5 grams of table salt) in each day, CFR decreases by 10%.

On average, the current amount of sodium consumed by Americans is 3.4 grams / day, meaning too high, exceeding the prescribed level to 2.3 grams / day.

The authors of the article give urgent advice: For people over 30 years of age as well as those with chronic hypertension, diabetes and kidney failure, should only consume at 1.5 g sodium per day. To do this, they were forced to eat light to reduce the dietary salt intake.