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To: Kennard

“It’s a good way to head for a stroke in ten years or so. “

Sodium causes strokes?


47 posted on 05/29/2010 8:21:11 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: webstersII
Sodium causes strokes?

Sodium increases blood volume and constricts capillary size, increasing blood pressure and often resulting in hypertension, a precursor, by roughly a decade, of strokes.

52 posted on 05/30/2010 10:43:25 PM PDT by Praxeologue (io)
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