Systematic review of health outcomes in relation to salt intake highlights the widening divide between guidelines and the evidence

Affiliations

• ¹ Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan;
• ² First Department of Cardiology, Interventional Electrocardiology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland;
• ³ Pole of Cardiovascular Research, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique and Division of Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium;
• ⁴ Studies Coordinating Centre, Research Unit Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, KU Leuven Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands. jan.staessen@med.kuleuven.be.