Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The average American consumes about 3,400 milligrams of sodium per day — well above the recommended limit of 2,300 mg daily.

Greater dietary sodium intake is associated with a higher risk for new heart failure among at-risk individuals.

A Vanderbilt University team found that excessive sodium intake was a direct, independent trigger for new-onset heart failure ...

If you are proactively working toward benefitting your cardiovascular health, you likely do your best to avoid foods high in sodium or seasoning your food with salt. Scientific research is clear that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frantic00/Getty Images Your body needs sodium to function properly, but most Americans consume about 48% above the recommended ...

Lowering sodium intake in patients with high sodium consumption can decrease risk for AF. Individuals who consume high sodium diets significantly benefit from lowering sodium intake for prevention of ...

HEALTH experts urged the passage of House Bill 6334, which seeks to regulate sodium in food products to meet the World Health ...

An estimated 61.9 million U.S. adults are on blood pressure medication, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — but a new study published in the Journal of the American ...

HAMILTON, ON — Risk of death or major cardiovascular events over 3.7-years of follow-up in the massive Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study can be explained by a J-shaped curve, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults in the highest dietary sodium intake quartile had higher odds for obesity vs. the lowest quartile.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 1 g increase of 24-hour urine sodium excretion was associated with 1.11 increased odds of AD. A 1 g per day ...

Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce sodium intake in the United States, adults still consume an average of 3,400 milligrams (mg) of sodium every day. A number of scientific bodies ...