Deans' stroke musings: Global sodium consumption and death from cardiovascular causes

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Global sodium consumption and death from cardiovascular causes

You're going to have to 'trust' your doctor on this one. There is so much conflicting information out there. I've only written 10 posts on it if you want to educate yourself for your doctors meeting.
This seems to be putting one hell of a lot of credence into correlation. And a second level correlation at that, salt causes high blood pressure, high blood pressure causes cardiovascular disease.
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/newsl-article.cfm/5481933/ZZF307965849E94474BB34FC062CEC0F93/?
High sodium intake increases blood pressure, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but the effects of sodium intake on global cardiovascular mortality are uncertain. In this modeling study, 1.65 million deaths from cardiovascular causes that occurred in 2010 were attributed to sodium consumption above a reference level of 2.0 g per day.
Methods

Authors collected data from surveys on sodium intake as determined by urinary excretion and diet in persons from 66 countries (accounting for 74.1% of adults throughout the world), and they used these data to quantify the global consumption of sodium according to age, sex, and country.
The effects of sodium on blood pressure, according to age, race, and the presence or absence of hypertension, were calculated from data in a new meta–analysis of 107 randomized interventions, and the effects of blood pressure on cardiovascular mortality, according to age, were calculated from a meta–analysis of cohorts.
Cause–specific mortality was derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
Using comparative risk assessment, they estimated the cardiovascular effects of current sodium intake, as compared with a reference intake of 2.0 g of sodium per day, according to age, sex, and country.

Results

In 2010, the estimated mean level of global sodium consumption was 3.95 g per day, and regional mean levels ranged from 2.18 to 5.51 g per day.
Globally, 1.65 million annual deaths from cardiovascular causes (95% uncertainty interval [confidence interval], 1.10 million to 2.22 million) were attributed to sodium intake above the reference level; 61.9% of these deaths occurred in men and 38.1% occurred in women.
These deaths accounted for nearly 1 of every 10 deaths from cardiovascular causes (9.5%).
Four of every 5 deaths (84.3%) occurred in low– and middle–income countries, and 2 of every 5 deaths (40.4%) were premature (before 70 years of age).
The rate of death from cardiovascular causes associated with sodium intake above the reference level was highest in the country of Georgia and lowest in Kenya.