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A member asked:
Does limiting salt intake improve pulmonary hypertension?
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No: Unlike arterial hypertension, there is no correlation between salt intake and pulmonary hypertension.
Answered 12/27/2011
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It depends: Dependent on the type of pulmonary hypertension, it may or may not affect it. One thing is for certain, if the person has fluid retention as a result of their pulmonary hypertension, then limiting salt intake would be beneficial to limit the edema. Also, if the pulmonary hypertension is a result of left-sided heart failure (systolic or diastolic), limiting salt intake is helpful.
Answered 7/7/2015
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Yes: It is important to keep a low salt diet. This is not a cure, it is just a way of keeping your heart from going into heart failure and causing peripheral edema.
Answered 9/22/2013
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