A study in care homes found that preparing meals with potassium-enriched salt, instead of regular salt, lowered the blood pressure of people aged over 55 and reduced their risk of cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes
Get the most essential health and fitness news in your inbox every Saturday.Over two years, those living in facilities where the potassium-enriched salt substitutes were introduced had an average reduction in systolic blood pressure of 7.1mmHg and in diastolic pressure of 1.9mmHg, compared with those in the regular salt group.
In contrast, no reduction in the average blood pressure or number of cardiovascular events was seen in the group living in facilities that simply reduced the salt content of meals. This may be because these participants didn’t like the taste of the reduced-salt meals and therefore added salt themselves, says Neal.
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