Salt Intake and Salt Need

Studies on Patients Subjected to Drastic Salt Restriction while under Continuous ObservationDuring the past ten years, I have personally studied on metabolic wards some 75 adults before and after drastic reduction in sodium intake.23,36,39,68 69 , 70 The majority of these subjects had so-called "essential" hypertension, but I have also studied normal volunteers and persons with unrelated diseases for periods of several weeks to nearly three months after the same degree of salt restriction. No difference in response was noted between the groups with and without hypertension. With 2 exceptions, these patients have had good renal function, and none had had a . . .