DECIDE-Salt: Salt Substitutes May Help Maintain Healthy BP in Older Adults – American College of Cardiology
Replacing regular salt with a salt substitute in the kitchens of elderly care facilities in China reduced the incidence of hypertension without increasing episodes of hypotension among older Chinese adults with normal blood pressure (BP), according to a post hoc analysis of the DECIDE-Salt study published Feb. 12 in JACC. DECIDE-Salt is a large, multicenter, cluster-randomized trial. The present analysis included 611 participants (mean age, 71.4 years; women, 25.7%; mean BP, 121.9/74.4 mm Hg); 313 lived