Overwhelming evidence shows that reducing salt intake from 9-12 to 5-6  g/d lowers blood pressure, thereby preventing cardiovascular disease. A recent paper claims that lower salt intake is associated with higher cardiovascular mortality despite lower blood pressure. The study is flawed and cannot refute the evidence for the benefits of salt reduction. The WHO recommends salt reduction as cruci...

To assess the effect of reducing salt intake on blood pressure in children, we carried out a meta-analysis of controlled trials. Trials were included if participants were children (< or = 18 years), and duration of salt reduction must have been for > or = 2 weeks. Mean effect size was calculated using a fixed-effect model, because there was no significant heterogeneity. Ten trials of children a...

In this paper, a new denoising technique for images corrupted with additive salt and pepper noise and white Gaussian noise is proposed. The technique used here is to combine the anisotropic diffusion (PM) model and total variation (TV) model. The new technique utilizes both advantages of PM model and TV model, while avoiding the disadvantages of both of them. To evaluate our algorithm several e...

Epidemiological, clinical, and experimental evidence links excessive salt consumption to hypertension; there appears to be no evidence that it is beneficial. I conclude that it should be public policy to advise and help Americans to reduce their salt intake. Because even mild hypertension increases risk, the overall problem does not appear to be amenable to treatment, although treatment for tho...

Cotton yields are greatly reduced under high salinity stress conditions, although cotton is considered a moderately salt-tolerant crop. Understanding at the molecular level how cotton responds to salt stress will help in developing salt tolerant varieties. Here, we combined physiological analysis with isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)-based proteomics of seedling leav...

The aim of the present project is to investigate the effect of salinity on growth, biochemical parameters and fatty acid composition in six varieties of safflower as well as identification of stress tolerant variety under saline (8 d Sm) condition. It was observed that salinity significantly decreased the dry weight and fresh weight of safflower varieties. Nitrate reductase (NRA) and nitrite re...

Regeneration and gene expression of salt/drought stress tolerant Alhagi graecrum and stress sensitive Lycopersicon esculentum under different concentrations of NaCl and mannitol were studied. Mannitol and NaCl applied at concentrations of 86, 172, 256 and 43, 86, 172 mM, respectively, in a shoot regeneration medium, caused similar water potentials. In L. esculentum, regeneration was influenced ...