Excess Salt May Make Arteries Stiff and Cause Vascular Problems

Data from both animal and human studies provide evidence that salt impairs endothelial function and increases arterial stiffness independent of blood pressure.
Vascular Effects of Dietary Salt
David G. Edwards and William B. Farquhar
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 May 15.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5431073/

Heart failure and salt: The great debate

December 18, 2018

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heart-failure-and-salt-the-great-debate-2018121815563

Vascular Stiffness in Aging and Disease

REVIEW article

Front. Physiol., 07 December 2021

Sec. Vascular Physiology

https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.762437

This article is part of the Research Topic

Cardiovascular Remodeling in Aging and Disease

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.762437/full

Effects of Sodium Intake on Health and Performance in Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Sports

by Eleftherios Veniamakis 1,Georgios Kaplanis 1,Panagiotis Voulgaris 1 andPantelis T. Nikolaidis 2,*ORCID

1

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 72300 Sitia, Greece

2

School of Health and Caring Sciences, University of West Attica, 12243 Athens, Greece

*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Academic Editor: Alberto Pérez-López

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(6), 3651; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063651

Received: 26 January 2022 / Revised: 3 March 2022 / Accepted: 8 March 2022 / Published: 19 March 2022

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/6/3651/htm

ud. 24.9.2022, 17.9.2022

pub. 25.9.2019