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Dietary salt to benefit pregnant women?
24/11/2004 - Government campaigns to reduce salt consumption in consumer diets are in place but scientists in Switzerland are calling for new research into the possible beneficial effects of salt increase in pregnant women with high blood pressure.
Speaking at a conference last week, Dr Mohaupt from the department of Nephrology/Hypertension at the University of Bern told the audience of the case of a pregnant woman whose high blood pressure was lowered by increasing the amount of salt in her diet.
Doctors recommended that the woman, who was suffering from pre-eclampsia, consumed 20g of salt a day. As a result of the salt increase the woman's systolic and diastolic blood pressure dropped by 16 mmHg and 12 mmHg.
“Salt supplementation may be useful to control intravascular volume and BP in pregnant women,” conclude the researchers from Bern, who outlined their findings at the congress on hypertension in pregnancy in Vienna, Austria last week.
Pre-eclampsia is a disease which only occurs in pregnancy. About 6-10 per cent of all pregnant women in Western European countries suffer from this disease, and the main symptoms are swollen extremities (edema), rising blood pressure (hypertension) and protein spills in the urine (proteinuria).
The scientists believe that due to the potential preventive and therapeutic consequences of salt supplementation in pregnant women, further studies ‘are mandatory.’ Read More...
Dietary salt to benefit pregnant women?
Dietary salt to benefit pregnant women?
24/11/2004 - Government campaigns to reduce salt consumption in consumer diets are in place but scientists in Switzerland are calling for new research into the possible beneficial effects of salt increase in pregnant women with high blood pressure.
Speaking at a conference last week, Dr Mohaupt from the department of Nephrology/Hypertension at the University of Bern told the audience of the case of a pregnant woman whose high blood pressure was lowered by increasing the amount of salt in her diet.
Doctors recommended that the woman, who was suffering from pre-eclampsia, consumed 20g of salt a day. As a result of the salt increase the woman's systolic and diastolic blood pressure dropped by 16 mmHg and 12 mmHg.
“Salt supplementation may be useful to control intravascular volume and BP in pregnant women,” conclude the researchers from Bern, who outlined their findings at the congress on hypertension in pregnancy in Vienna, Austria last week.
Pre-eclampsia is a disease which only occurs in pregnancy. About 6-10 per cent of all pregnant women in Western European countries suffer from this disease, and the main symptoms are swollen extremities (edema), rising blood pressure (hypertension) and protein spills in the urine (proteinuria).
The scientists believe that due to the potential preventive and therapeutic consequences of salt supplementation in pregnant women, further studies ‘are mandatory.’ Read More...
Dietary salt to benefit pregnant women?
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