Sodium increases blood volume and constricts capillary size, increasing blood pressure and often resulting in hypertension, a precursor, by roughly a decade, of 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”
I think you painted with a broad brush there.
Studies show that a minority of people have elevated blood pressure due to sodium intake. It does constrict capillaries and MAY cause hypertension — a known precursor of stroke — but the link between hypertension and sodium is not there for the majority of people.