Research
Macro partitioning
Low-sodium diets are significantly associated with hypertension and dyslipidaemia management, but not significantly associated with diabetes in this population.
If you have high blood pressure or high cholesterol, reducing your sodium intake to under 2000mg per day is associated with better health outcomes. However, this specific restriction may not help manage diabetes.
ModerateQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
a significant association was found between the adoption of the low-sodium diet and TT (p = 0.007) and RTH (p = 0.03)... No significant association was found between diabetes and the application of the low-sodium diet according to the results of this study.
Why this rating
Observational study; self-reported diet; specific subgroup analysis.
Source
Factors Associated with the Use of Specific Diets and Their Impact on the Nutritional Status of Moroccan Adults
Imane Barakat et al. · Natural Built Social Environment Health · 2025
DOI 10.63095/nbseh.25.402237
cross_sectional · n=507
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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