From NEJM: Salt in health and disease--a delicate balance

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23534562

N Engl J Med. 2013 Mar 28;368(13):1229-37. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1212606.

Salt in health and disease--a delicate balance.

Kotchen TA, Cowley AW Jr, Frohlich ED.

Source

Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. tkotchen@mcw.edu

This review provides an overview of our current understanding of the relation of salt consumption to hypertension and cardiovascular disease.