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**deathgodusmc** · 03-22-13, 05:02 PM

Salt Linked to 2.3 Million Annual Heart Deaths Worldwide - Heart Health Center - Everyday Health

" Eating too much salt contributes to 2.3 million deaths from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases"

I just did my own study and found a link between lack of O2 and 100% of deaths.These studies are really getting stupid .

**Alundil** · 03-28-13, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Salt Linked to 2.3 Million Annual Heart Deaths Worldwide - Heart Health Center - Everyday Health

" Eating too much salt contributes to 2.3 million deaths from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases"

I just did my own study and found a link between lack of O2 and 100% of deaths.These studies are really getting stupid .

Out of curiosity, is the blurb you quoted the one piece that stuck out in your mind as "stupid?" Because there's a far more pertinent point in the article that agrees with you, but not for the reason (or in this case analogy) that you used. In fact the analogy that you've used is basically NOT applicable to salt and those effects (or at least not yet if ever).

Specifically this one:

The fact that the association is entirely extrapolated based on heart-related death data is a huge flaw with the analysis, according to Steven Nissen, MD, a cardiologist with the Cleveland Clinic[/COLOR]. "They’re trying to extrapolate millions of death based upon salt intake, but it’s not based upon any data on mortality and salt," he said. "It's also based on an extrapolation of the effect of sodium on blood pressure, which is a very big reach, and not a reliable estimate of the burdens of salt."
The effect of salt on blood pressure isn't even that well-established, Dr. Nissen said, and even less well-documented is blood pressure's direct effect on mortality. "There's no question that higher sodium intake does slightly raise blood pressure, which is a risk factor for heart disease," he said. "But some studies show only a one millimeter difference in blood pressure in those on a high-sodium versus a low-sodium diet."