A low salt diet appears to increase the risk of death in those with congestive heart failure.

With its slightly metallic flavour, Spa is perfect for those on a low salt diet.

Many doctors recommend a low salt diet for patients with high blood pressure, but patients vary in their response to such a measure.

The effect of a low salt diet is unclear with any benefit in either hypertensive or normal tensive people being small if present.

Practical Problems Part of the problem is that extremely low salt diets come with substantial practical difficulties.

For Meniere's disease, in addition to symptomatic treatment, people might be placed on a low salt diet and may require medication used to increase urine output.

Lifestyle changes including low salt diet and various medications especially ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers can lower high blood pressure.

The nurses asked standard questions used to monitor heart patients, examining factors like activity, shortness of breath, weight changes, compliance with a low salt diet and drug therapy, as well as swelling of the feet.

It will be interesting to see whether, in the future, the generation that is now being raised on comparatively low salt diets will consider the York ham to be as special as those who now remember it so fondly.

Taken together, a low salt diet (median of approximately 4.5 g/day - approx 1800mg Sodium) in hypertensive people resulted in a decrease in systolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg, and in diastolic blood pressure by 2.70 mmHg.

In fact, the family of blood pressure medications called the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, which work by blocking some of the very hormones activated by low salt diets, have been shown to reduce mortality in people with high blood pressure, as have other types of blood pressure medications.