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I have a weird habit of checking out food labels; it goes with the job. This one really grabbed my attention. It was on an electrolyte beverage and stated its case for the 1,000 milligrams of sodium ...

Despite the exclusion of trials of short duration, the median duration of salt reduction in trials included in this meta-analysis was only 6 weeks in hypertensives and 4 weeks in the normotensives.