2006
Title: Dietary Sodium Intake and Its Relation to Human Health: A Summary of the Evidence
Authors: Rick L. Sharp, PhD; Norman K. Hollenberg, MD, PhD; Veronica Franco, MD and Suzanne Oparil, MD; Michael Alderman, MD; R. Curtis Morris, Jr.,MD; Olga Schmidlin, MD; Lynda A. Frassetto, MD; Anthony Sebastian, MD; Robert Heaney, MD; Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH
Journal: Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol. 25, No. 3(S), June 2006
Supported by the ILSI North America Technical Committee on Sodium
Abstract: There is little doubt that an adequate intake of salt is required to maintain good health. Concerns about its health consequences arose more than 40 years ago in response to ecologic, epidemiological and clniical studies linking Western levels of sodium intake to a variety of adverse effects.
Since these initial observations, considerable scientific effort has substantially increased our understanding of the relationship of salt intake to human health. The articles in the supplement to this issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition summarize much of what is known and indicate the wide areas of agreement. Nonetheless, they also point out that many important questions remain unanswered.
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