Reduced salt intake increases cholesterol
According to researchers at the University of Copenhagen limiting salt intake may be more disadvantages than advantages. Less salt lowers blood, although slightly reduced – especially in people with hypertension. But it raises the other, the cholesterol and triglyceride levels in the blood, and it makes the kidneys more renin and the hormone aldosterone to produce substances that related to hypertension. This would increase risk of heart disease rather than decrease. In people with normal blood pressure, reducing salt intake may be more disadvantages than advantages, so the researchers decide. The scientists analyzed 160 previous studies involving over 40,000 people. The results were published in the journal American Journal of Hypertension, and the Cochrane Library journal, has left earlier this year already has been demonstrated by a group of researchers at the KU Leuven. According to critics, the effects of salt on blood pressure underestimated because the in the studies often short periods (no more than one month) and that this was too short to body to notice changes. The observed increase in cholesterol was not above “bad” LDL cholesterol.
