Global Dialysis - Ain't necessarily so: Higher salt intake associated with lower mortality in diabetic patients?

Ain't necessarily so: Higher salt intake associated with lower mortality in diabetic patients?

Diabetes Care: CONCLUSIONS In patients with type 2 diabetes, lower 24-h urinary sodium excretion was paradoxically associated with increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Interventional studies are necessary to determine if dietary salt has a causative role in determining adverse outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and the appropriateness of guidelines advocating salt restriction in this setting.

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