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Men who consumed more sodium showed faster episodic memory loss over six years—and the link held even after accounting for ...

Using less salt in your food may seem boring, but the payoffs could be as big as a lowered risk of death, new research has found. Using a salt substitute when cooking was linked with a lower risk of ...

Salt intake showed no genetic causal link to gastric cancer risk. Read more on the Mendelian randomization findings.

A 2024 observational study of more than 470,000 adults in Britain found that people with higher salt intake are more likely to develop certain stomach cancers than those who ate little or no salt.

A new UAB study is learning more about the effects of dietary salt on blood pressure, including who is most affected and the mechanisms behind it. High blood pressure — hypertension — is the leading ...

Findings from a study published in The Lancet Public Health provide the strongest evidence to date that salt warning labels on restaurant menus are perceived by consumers as effective in discouraging ...