TIME: Salt Doesn’t Cause High Blood Pressure? Here’s What a New Study Says

Time: Salt Doesn’t Cause High Blood Pressure? Here’s What a New Study Says

Sodium has long been labeled the blood-pressure bogeyman. But are we giving salt a fair shake?

A new study published in theAmerican Journal of Hypertension analyzed data from 8,670 French adults and found that salt consumption wasn’t associated with systolic blood pressure in either men or women after controlling for factors like age.