Heart Disease
For patients, caregivers, and medical professionals interested in various heart diseases, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, heart arrhythmia (cardiac arrhythmia), atrial fibrillation, and cardiomyopathy.
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease include: hypertension (high blood pressure), hyperglycemia (high blood sugar), overweight, obesity and diabetes.
Cardiovascular diseases can also lead to the following conditions: heart attack, heart failure, stroke and angina.
This community is also for students and professionals in the field of cardiology.
Big Benefits are Seen from Eating Less Salt
Jan 21, 2010 at 11:53am
In a report that may bolster public policy efforts to get Americans to reduce the amount of salt in their diets, scientists writing in The New England Journal of Medicine conclude that lowering the amount of salt people eat by even a small amount could reduce cases of heart disease, stroke and heart attacks as much as reductions in smoking, obesity and cholesterol levels.
If everyone consumed half a teaspoon less salt per day, there would be between 54,000 and 99,000 fewer heart attacks each year and between 44,000 and 92,000 fewer deaths, according to the study, which was conducted by scientists at University of California San Francisco, Stanford University Medical Center and Columbia University Medical Center.
These results are pretty shocking! Does anyone have experience with this and/or believe these results to be accurate?
Jan 21, 2010 at 7:20pm
Actual link to the Columbia University story on this:
http://cumc.columbia.edu/news/press_releases/GoldmanSalt.html
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