Salty diet does harm in heart failure

Salty diet does harm in heart failure

From Reuters Health. More reason to reduce salt in your diet. I never understood why people put salt when they bake or when they cook eggs. I certainly don't! The article articulates the risks involved with people who have a high salt diet and if they encounter a heart failure.

Highlights:
In the study, people who ate an average of 3.8 grams of sodium per day -- equivalent to nearly 2 teaspoons of salt, and more than twice the maximum recommended by the American Heart Association for healthy people -- were twice as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure within a 3-year window as people who ate fewer salty foods.

Among people with heart failure who ate an average of 3.8 grams of salt per day, nearly half were hospitalized for heart failure over an approximately 3-year period. In contrast, only 12 to 15 percent of the people with lower-salt diets - between 1.4 and 2.4 grams per day on average -- ended up in the hospital during the same time span.

People who ate the highest amounts of salt were also three times more likely to die during the study period, the authors report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.