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. 2020 Jun 26:369:m2440.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2440.

Sodium and health-concordance and controversy

Nancy R Cook  1 , Feng J He  2 , Graham A MacGregor  2 , Niels Graudal  3
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Sodium and health-concordance and controversy

Nancy R Cook et al. BMJ. .

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  • Correction for vol. 369, p.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] BMJ. 2020 Jun 29;369:m2608. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m2608. BMJ. 2020. PMID: 32601170 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Nancy Cook and colleagues describe the sources of agreement and disagreement about the health effects of sodium and how they might be resolved

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have the following interests to declare: NRC has received past research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association, and consultancy fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals and OptumCare. She was a member of the Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019. FJH is a member of Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) and World Action on Salt and Health (WASH). Both CASH and WASH are non-profit charitable organisations and FJH does not receive any financial support from CASH or WASH. GAM is chairman of Blood Pressure UK (BPUK), chairman of CASH and chairman of WASH. BPUK, CASH, and WASH are non-profit charitable organisations. GAM does not receive any financial support from any of these organisations. NG has no competing interests to declare.

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Association of sodium excretion with cardiovascular disease in the Trials of Hypertension Prevention (top) and PURE study (bottom). Reproduced with permission
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