Open AccessDietary sodium restriction below 2 g per day predicted shorter event-free survival in patients with mild heart failure
Author(s) -
Eun Kyeung Song,
Debra K. Moser,
Sandra B. Dunbar,
Susan J. Pressler,
Terry A. Lennie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of cardiovascular nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1873-1953
pISSN - 1474-5151
DOI - 10.1177/1474515113517574
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , heart failure , ejection fraction , lower risk , sodium , body mass index , cardiology , confidence interval , organic chemistry , chemistry
Despite a growing recognition that a strict low sodium diet may not be warranted in compensated heart failure (HF) patients, the link between sodium restriction below 2 g/day and health outcomes is unknown in patients at different levels of HF severity.
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