Letter to the Editor
Salt Intake and Mortality Feng J. He1 and Graham A. MacGregor1
Correspondence: Feng J. He ([email protected]). 1Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Initially submitted April 11, 2014; date of first revision April 17, 2014; accepted for publication April 17, 2014. doi:10.1093/ajh/hpu095 © American Journal of Hypertension, Ltd 2014. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]
Taylor et al.’s meta-analysis was published simultaneously in The Cochrane Library and the American Journal of Hypertension. Surely, the American Journal of Hypertension should also retract this article. Graudal et al. tried to ascribe the higher mortality with a lower salt intake to the elevated renin-aldosterone activity, sympathetic nerve activation, and lipid abnormalities. They quoted their own meta-analysis, which included a large number of trials with an acute salt loading to abrupt and severe salt restriction (e.g., from 20 to
Salt Intake and Mortality Feng J. He1 and Graham A. MacGregor1
Correspondence: Feng J. He ([email protected]). 1Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Initially submitted April 11, 2014; date of first revision April 17, 2014; accepted for publication April 17, 2014. doi:10.1093/ajh/hpu095 © American Journal of Hypertension, Ltd 2014. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected]
Taylor et al.’s meta-analysis was published simultaneously in The Cochrane Library and the American Journal of Hypertension. Surely, the American Journal of Hypertension should also retract this article. Graudal et al. tried to ascribe the higher mortality with a lower salt intake to the elevated renin-aldosterone activity, sympathetic nerve activation, and lipid abnormalities. They quoted their own meta-analysis, which included a large number of trials with an acute salt loading to abrupt and severe salt restriction (e.g., from 20 to
