Chloride & Heart Disease - Overlooked & Misunderstood? Low Chloride Levels (Below 100meq/L) Are Associated W/ 20% Increased All Cause Mortality in Hypertensive Subjects
Salt is a four-letter-word today - literally and figuratively; and so would be NaCl, if it was a word and not the combination of the acronyms for natrium, or as Americans like to all it "sodium", and chloride and that despite the fact that low Cl may put your life at risk. From my previous articles and Facebook posts on the questionable usefulness of dietary salt restriction you will remember that several epidemiological studies have already shown that a very low salt intake can be associated with increases in cardiovascular and all cause mortality. In NHANES I, for example, total sodium intake was inversely associated with all-cause (p=0·0069) and CVD mortality (Alderman. 1998) You may also have heard me say and write that some scientists have suggested that we should better focus on the chloride rather than the sodium atom in NaCl, if we wanted to rid ourselves of the hypertension problem we are facing these days. Against that background, it sounds somewhat surprisin...
