Effects of a reduced-sodium added-potassium salt substitute on blood pressure in rural Indian hypertensive patients: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.

Jie YuSudhir Raj ThoutQiang LiMaoyi TianMatti MarklundClare ArnottMark D HuffmanDevarsetty PraveenClaire JohnsonLiping HuangSimone PettigrewBruce NealJason H Y Wu

Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition (2021)

The reduced-sodium added-potassium salt led to a substantial reduction in SBP in hypertensive patients, supporting salt substitution as an effective, low-cost intervention for BP lowering in rural India. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03909659.

Keyphrases

hypertensive patients
blood pressure
low cost
double blind
study protocol
south africa
clinical trial
phase iii
randomized controlled trial
phase ii
heart rate
placebo controlled
open label
type diabetes
adipose tissue
metabolic syndrome
weight loss