High blood pressure, or hypertension, impacts almost half of all adults in the United States and is a significant risk factor for heart related illness and stroke. While medications and lifestyle ...

If you’re trying to cut back on sodium, you’ve probably gotten the advice to cook with plenty of herbs and spices. Their flavor punches up dishes, so you can lay off the saltshaker. But it can ...

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Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Boosting potassium may lower blood pressure more ...

A call to include recommendations on low-sodium potassium-enriched salt in hypertension treatment guidelines has been made by an international group of experts today in the American Heart ...

Keeping your electrolytes in balance by getting enough potassium is important for preventing some of the negative effects of excess sodium in your diet.

—The combination of low sodium and high potassium was the subject of a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the U.S., it’s rare to see people who have abnormally low ...