Home health clinicians can select a variety of the instructional techniques presented to meet individual patient learning needs. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Congestive Heart Failure

  Abstract The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of a normal-sodium (120 mmol sodium) diet compared with a low-sodium diet (80 mmol sodium) on readmissions for CHF (congestive heart failure) during 180 days of follow-up in compensated [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Guidelines from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the CDC and the World Health Organization all recommend a low-salt diet, especially for patients with congestive heart failure The new study in JACC Heart Failure is not [peoplespharmacy.com]

  "For people who don't have congestive heart failure, reducing sodium is not as important. For a patient with congestive heart failure, low sodium intake is crucial," Banerjee said. [stanfordhealthcare.org]

  This type of diet is often required for people with chronic kidney disease but may also be necessary for those with Addison’s disease or people taking potassium-sparing diuretics for hypertension or congestive heart failure. [healthydiningfinder.com]

  A 2011 study that followed 28,800 subjects with high blood pressure for nearly five years found that the risks of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and death from heart disease increased significantly for those consuming more than 7,000 [laweekly.com]

• Weight Loss

  Rapid Weight Loss People who reduce their salt intake may experience an initial weight loss that is rapid, but limited. [livestrong.com]

  Both groups lost weight, the weight loss being greater in those receiving dietary therapy. Only dietary therapy was associated with a significant elevation of HDL2 level (P less than 0.05) and decrease in glycosylated haemoglobin (P less than 0.01). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Diet & Nutrition The 10 Best and Worst Fad Diets for Weight Loss Should you try keto, flexible or full-on vegetarian, or some other plan? Dieting is tough, but the likelihood of your success may depend on which one ... [everydayhealth.com]

  Learn how the DASH diet promotes weight loss. Read about DASH diet in the News. Read about new DASH diet research. Learn more about book author Marla Heller, MS, RD [dashdiet.org]

  Not only will reducing sodium intake result in weight loss from water weight, it will also help to keep blood pressure at health levels and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and strokes, and that's something that is good for everyone [symptomfind.com]

• Vomiting

  Overdose of electrolytes is possible, with symptoms such as vomiting and feeling ill, and care should be taken not to overdose on any electrolyte supplement. Jonathan Toker is a Canadian elite-level runner and triathlete. [slowtwitch.com]

  Also, those who have been vomiting or had diarrhea may experience low levels of sodium, and should look to replace the sodium they've lost. [symptomfind.com]

  Meniere’s disease almost always is a progressive set of symptoms that includes vertigo (dizziness that often results in uncontrollable vomiting), constant tinnitus (a ringing or buzzing sound in the ears), aural fullness (a clogged or stuffy sensation [todaysdietitian.com]

• Nausea

  Symptoms include belly pain, tenderness, fever, and nausea. With an excess of fluid built up in your abdomen, a hernia may form because of the pressure it is placing on surrounding organs. [liverandpancreassurgeon.com]

  Though rare, low sodium levels can cause headache, nausea, lethargy, confusion, muscle twitching, and convulsions. [diet.com]

• Heart Failure

  BACKGROUND: A low sodium diet is a cornerstone of nonpharmacologic therapy for heart failure patients. Although nonadherence is common, little is known about why heart failure patients fail to adhere to this diet. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  Guidelines from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the CDC and the World Health Organization all recommend a low-salt diet, especially for patients with congestive heart failure The new study in JACC Heart Failure is not [peoplespharmacy.com]

  "For people who don't have congestive heart failure, reducing sodium is not as important. For a patient with congestive heart failure, low sodium intake is crucial," Banerjee said. [stanfordhealthcare.org]

• Hypotension

  Treatment of mild hypertension in diabetic subjects with this form of dietary regimen has a hypotensive response, with improvement in glycaemic control and no side effects. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  […] participants with hypertension, the effects were equal to or greater than those of single-drug therapy. 21,22 The combined effects were not as great as would be estimated on the basis of strict additivity, perhaps because low levels of sodium attenuated the hypotensive [nejm.org]

• Confusion

  Lack of knowledge also was manifested as diet confusion for participants who required additional dietary restrictions. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  For the average person, these wildly differing positions are confusing, even maddening. The flip-flops are just the type of thing to convince a person to tune out public-health messages altogether. But looking at the evidence, nothing has changed. [theglobeandmail.com]

  The term “low sodium diet” is quite non-specific and often causes confusion for a lot of people. Many people ask, “How low is low?” Sodium restrictions cover a wide range and can be mild, moderate, or severe. [broward.org]

  By reading food labels, you can see if a food is low, medium or high in salt (do not confuse with sodium, see below): Low - 0.3g salt or less per 100g of food - Eat plenty of these. [bloodpressureuk.org]

  Believe me, serious nephrologists and cardiologists are both laughing and crying over these new studies, crying because these studies confuse their patients, potentially causing terrible increases in terrible diseases like strokes. [pritikin.com]

• Hyponatremia

  Athletes, especially those who participate in long-distance endurance events, are also at a high risk of developing exercise-associated hyponatremia ( 29, 30 ). [healthline.com]

  Diet - sodium (salt); Hyponatremia - sodium in diet; Hypernatremia - sodium in diet; Heart failure - sodium in diet Appel LJ. Diet and blood pressure. In: Bakris GL, Sorrentino MJ, eds. Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease. 3rd ed. [nlm.nih.gov]

  Some athletes and others who exercise frequently and ingest very little sodium yet drink a lot of water may be at risk of hyponatremia, a condition that occurs when the body does not have enough sodium. [diet.com]

  Hyponatremia. N Engl J Med. 2000;342(21):1581-1589. 7. Speedy DB, Rogers IR, Noakes TD, et al. Diagnosis and prevention of hyponatremia at an ultradistance triathlon. Clin J Sport Med. 2000;10(1):52-58. (PubMed) 8. [lpi.oregonstate.edu]

This modified diet may be an attractive alternative to anti-hypertensive drug therapy as a first line treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The American Journal of Medicine (Nov., 2013) : “… there is sound evidence that a low sodium diet leads to a worse cardiovascular prognosis in patients with systolic congestive heart failure or type 2 diabetes mellitus…Advising low sodium diets seems [peoplespharmacy.com]

RESULTS: After controlling for age, sex, etiology of HF, body mass index, New York Heart Association class, ejection fraction, N-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide, and total comorbidity score, nonadherence to 3-g sodium intake (hazard ratio = 1.56, [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract Clinical and epidemiologic studies suggest that the intake of potassium chloride lowers blood pressure. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Moore will present the findings during the Epidemiological Research Addressing Diet and Health Outcomes Session at 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 25, in Room S103BC, McCormick Place Convention Center ( abstract ). [eurekalert.org]

Salt is an essential nutrient and is needed by the body, said Mente, a principal investigator of the Population Health Research Institute and an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster's Michael G. [cbc.ca]

Epidemiological data suggest that dietary sodium intake may be associated with systemic inflammation: another potential pathophysiological mechanism by which sodium intake may modify vascular disease. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

As you adopt strategies for preventing heart disease, you also help manage other chronic diseases such as diabetes, certain kinds of cancer, osteoporosis and chronic low back pain. [emoryhealthcare.org]

Here are the Top 10 Reasons to Eat Low Sodium: Help Prevent Heart Disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. today Help Prevent Stroke Help in recovery of Heart Disease Help in recovery of Stroke Lowers high Blood Pressure, which left untreated can [synergyhomecare.com]