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    Forscher fanden heraus, dass eine Reduzierung des Salzgehalts in alltäglichen Lebensmitteln (-17,5 %, 1,12 g/Tag) Zehntausende Herzinfarkte und Schlaganfälle verhindern könnte


    Forscher fanden heraus, dass eine Reduzierung des Salzgehalts in alltäglichen Lebensmitteln (-17,5 %, 1,12 g/Tag) Zehntausende Herzinfarkte und Schlaganfälle verhindern könnte

    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-27-researchers-find-reducing-salt-everyday-foods-could-prevent-tens-thousands-heart

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    1. sr_local on

      If the food industry had achieved the 2024 targets, average adult salt intake would have decreased from 6.1g a day to 4.9g a day, a reduction of around 17.5% (1.12 g/day). Men were estimated to see slightly greater reductions than women because they typically consume more salt.

      Overall, the study estimates this would lower the top blood pressure number (the pressure in the arteries when the heart beats) by about one point in women and just over one point in men. Although the reduction in blood pressure for each individual is small, across millions of people it adds up to a large reduction in disease.

      As a result, these modest reductions in daily salt intake would translate into substantial population-level health benefits. Over a 20-year period, the modelling suggests:

      * 103,000 fewer cases of ischaemic heart disease
      * 25,000 fewer strokes
      * 243,000 additional quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained
      * £1.0 billion in healthcare savings for the NHS over the population’s lifetime

      [Estimating the Potential Impact of the 2024 UK Salt Reduction Targets on Cardiovascular Health Outcomes and Health Care Costs in Adults: A Modeling Study | Hypertension](https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.125.25159)

    2. Franc000 on

      How is 1.12g/day a 17.5% reduction? Isn’t the daily recommended dose 2g, and the current consumption at around 2.5g-3g?

    3. haloimplant on

      had to do some math, did it on strokes since they are easy to quantify. 100k strokes per year in UK, 2M in 20 years. a 25k reduction is 1.25%

      i like to rephrase these things: a lifetime of bland food for a 98.75% chance you stroke out just the same

    4. ontrack on

      But there’s a balance, no? Like if you are in a very hot environment you have to make sure you get enough salt. Hyponatremia is a thing.

    5. m0llusk on

      Reactions to salt vary greatly, with metabolic syndrome being a huge issue. When dealing with averages as this paper does the results make sense, but people in great shape with no metabolic syndrome, however rare, react to dietary salt in a very different way from the large percentage of the population who are diabetic or prediabetic.

    6. Zilreth on

      Salt is not an issue, just drink water. They say this reduction would likely drop your blood pressure by 1 or 2 basis points which is functionally negligible. I doubt it would significantly impact total stroke numbers, and those that it did „prevent“ would be likely to happen in the near future anyway if the difference we are talking about is so miniscule. Eat your salt, taste your food, be active, and watch your calories. If you ate one healthy meal instead of overprocessed crap each week it would be massively more beneficial than this. Sodium intake is a scapegoat for other factors with orders of magnitude greater impact.

    10. sjackson12 on

      If you do reduce your salt quite a bit make sure you have another source for iodine

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