Dietary Sodium Intake and Incidence of Congestive Heart Failure in Overweight US Men and Women
Author(s) -
Jiang He,
Lorraine G. Ogden,
Lydia Bazzano,
Suma Vupputuri,
Catherine M. Loria,
Paul K. Whelton
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.162.14.1619
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , confidence interval , heart failure , incidence (geometry) , risk factor , population , national health and nutrition examination survey , relative risk , body mass index , cardiology , environmental health , physics , optics
Cross-sectional epidemiologic studies suggest that a higher intake of dietary sodium is associated with an increased risk of left ventricular hypertrophy. We studied the relationship between dietary sodium intake and incidence of congestive heart failure (CHF) in the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study participants.
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