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BMJ paper tops US medical journal chart: A BMJ study by Nancy Cook of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and colleagues (BMJ 2007;334:885 doi: 10.1136/bmj.39147.604896.55) showing that reduced dietary sodium intake can lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease has been cited by the American Heart Association (www.theheart.org) as one of the top 10 advances of 2007.

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Long term effects of dietary sodium reduction on cardiovascular disease outcomes: observational follow-up of the trials of hypertension prevention (TOHP)
Nancy R Cook, Jeffrey A Cutler, Eva Obarzanek, Julie E Buring, Kathryn M Rexrode, Shiriki K Kumanyika, Lawrence J Appel, and Paul K Whelton
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