Deans' stroke musings: Dietary Sodium to Potassium Ratio and Risk of Stroke in a Multiethnic Urban Population

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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.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Dietary Sodium to Potassium Ratio and Risk of Stroke in a Multiethnic Urban Population

Now what should occur is followup research detailing exactly the amounts of specific foods on a daily basis per bodyweight and sex to provide this level of potassium in the blood. But we won't get that, we'll get this:

Why eat three bananas a day? April 2012

http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/48/11/2979?etoc=

The Northern Manhattan Study

, Hannah Gardener, Sandino Cespedes, , Ralph L. Sacco, Mitchell S.V. Elkind

https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.017963 Originally published October 10, 2017

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Abstract

Background and Purpose—There is growing evidence that increased dietary sodium (Na) intake increases the risk of vascular diseases, including stroke, at least in part via an increase in blood pressure. Higher dietary potassium (K), seen with increased intake of fruits and vegetables, is associated with lower blood pressure. The goal of this study was to determine the association of a dietary Na:K with risk of stroke in a multiethnic urban population.

Methods—Stroke-free participants from the Northern Manhattan Study, a population-based cohort study of stroke incidence, were followed-up for incident stroke. Baseline food frequency questionnaires were analyzed for Na and K intake. We estimated the hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the association of Na:K with incident total stroke using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models.

Results—Among 2570 participants with dietary data (mean age, 69±10 years; 64% women; 21% white; 55% Hispanic; 24% black), the mean Na:K ratio was 1.22±0.43. Over a mean follow-up of 12 years, there were 274 strokes. In adjusted models, a higher Na:K ratio was associated with increased risk for stroke (hazard ratio, 1.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.2–2.1) and specifically ischemic stroke (hazard ratio, 1.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.2–2.1).

Conclusions—Na:K intake is an independent predictor of stroke risk. Further studies are required to understand the joint effect of Na and K intake on risk of cardiovascular disease.