'This diagnosis was worth the salt'

Is this issue worth reading?

The advantages of interdisciplinary approaches to health care over multidisciplinary approaches are well documented. A multidisciplinary approach may not even involve a case conference with the chance of patient management being fragmented and less successful. For the patient the possibility of receiving a conflicting (or apparently conflicting diagnosis) and/or contradictory advice and/or conf...

Salt and hypertension: is salt dietary reduction worth the effort?

In numerous epidemiologic, clinical, and experimental studies, dietary sodium intake has been linked to blood pressure, and a reduction in dietary salt intake has been documented to lower blood pressure. In young subjects, salt intake has a programming effect in that blood pressure remains elevated even after a high salt intake has been reduced. Elderly subjects, African Americans, and obese pa...

A treatment worth its salt?

Worth one's salt: the master dysnatremia equation.

Fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammal share the interesting physiological fact that their plasma salt concentration ([Na ϩ ] pw) is virtually identical, amounting to ϳ9 g/l. This is the equivalent of a 0.9% salt solution. In humans, the [Na ϩ ] pw is maintained within a very narrow range, where its value varies by only 1% (11). Diseases that perturb the [Na ϩ ] pw are collectively known...

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Forages are the most important ingredient in a dairy cow’s ration. She is a ruminant and to be a healthy, productive cow she needs a healthy, productive rumen. High quality forages are the key to achieving a healthy rumen and a productive cow. However, because of the importance of forages in maintaining rumen health and cow performance, when deficiencies in the amount or quality of the forage i...