Consuming a diet high in sodium may lead to heart disease and increase the risk of early death, a study warns. The research published, in the 'International Journal of Epidemiology' was carried on nearly 3000 individuals with pre-hypertension or high bp. It confirms a linear relationship between eating food high in salt and mortality risk. '' Sodium is notoriously hard to measure. Sodium is hidden - you often donot know how much of it you are eating, which makes it hard to estimate how much a person has consumed from a dietary questionaire, '' said Nancy Cook from Brigham and women's hospitals in the United States. '' Sodium excretion are the best measures, but there are many ways of collecting those, '' researchers said.



