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Joseph Arends, MD
Troy, Mich

JAMA. 1984;251(11):1429.

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To the Editor.—

The article entitled "Dietary Salt Intake and Blood Pressure" has one major shortcoming— the dietary survey is unreliable.

Critical questions concerning cheese, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, canned fruits, frozen vegetables, and, most importantly, restaurant eating were not asked. Restaurants add large amounts of salt that go undetected. The only way to quantitate salt intake is to measure urinary sodium. Even intelligent and bright people have shallow awareness of their salt intake.

The article by Hofman et al¹ in the same issue, which states a causal relationship between sodium and blood pressure, deals with a more controlled population (infants). For this reason the differences are evident. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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