* Alderman, Salt, Blood Pressure, and Cardiovascular Disease, Presidential address, International Society of Hypertension (37-minute video with slides)

* Cohen, Sodium Intake and Mortality Follow-Up in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)

* Tunstall-Pedhoe, Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study

* Tuomilehto, Urinary sodium excretion and cardiovascular mortality in Finland and Health Outcomes from Finland’s Salt Reduction

* Geleijense, Sodium and Potassium Intake and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: The Rotterdam Study

Population advisories on salt intake

* Hooper, Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease (Cochrane Review)

* US Preventive Services Task Force (HHS), Counseling to Promote a Healthy Diet

* Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2005)

* Dietary Reference Intakes (Sodium and Chloride)

Cardiovascular health

Salt intake and disease risk factors

* Jürgens, Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet on blood pressure, renin, aldosterone, catecholamines, cholesterols, and triglyceride (Cochrane Review)

* Tunstall-Pedoe, Scottish Heart Health Study (coronary heart disease and death)

Blood pressure

* Intersalt Study (Swales commentary)

* Trials of Hypertension Prevention

* Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH)

Insulin resistance/sensitivity

* Low-Salt Diets and Insulin Resistance

* Moderate Dietary Salt Restriction Increases Vascular and Systemic Insulin Resistance

Plasma renin activity

* Grassi, Neuroadrenergic effects of salt reduction

Mental capacity (brain development)/Iodine deficiency

* Hetzel, Towards The Global Elimination of Brain Damage Due to Iodine Deficiency

* Hollowell, The prevalence of iodine deficiency in women of reproductive age in the United States of America

* CDC, National Report on Biochemical Indicators of Diet and Nutrition in the U.S. Population, 1999-2002 -- Trace Elements: Iodine

Hyponatremia (water intoxication)

* WHO, Salt, Sugar and Water Avert Diarrhea Deaths

Osteoporosis

* Heaney, Role of Dietary Salt and osteoporosis

Asthma

* Ram, Salt and Asthma (Cochrane Review)

* Pogson, Salt and Asthma

Sleep disorders

Salt intake during pregnancy

* Duley and Henderson-Smart, Reduced salt intake compared to normal dietary salt, or high intake, in pregnancy (Cochrane Review)

Salt intake for older persons

Salt Guru: Salt Roasted Sea Bass (video)

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