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In patients with treated hypertension, a low sodium diet allows some individuals to stop antihypertensive medication while maintaining blood pressure control.
If you are on blood pressure medication, reducing salt intake might allow your doctor to safely lower or stop your prescription. This requires careful monitoring to ensure your blood pressure stays controlled.
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Advice to reduce sodium intake may help people on antihypertensive drugs to stop their medication while maintaining good blood pressure control.
Why this rating
Based on a small trial (n=20) and a larger study (n=975) showing reduced need for medication restart.
Source
Systematic review of long term effects of advice to reduce dietary salt in adults
Lee Hooper et al. · BMJ · 2002
DOI 10.1136/bmj.325.7365.628
Meta-analysis · 11 studiesCited 302×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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