Association Between Blood Pressure and Dietary Factors in the Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults

Abstract

Sodium is positively associated with blood pressure over a range of sodium excretion rates from 70 to 400 mmol/d. This finding supports the international consensus that the risk of hypertension is lower when salt intake is lower and suggests that a proportion of the British population has a sodium excretion rate that is habitually low enough to have some preventive effect.