Even after taking into account cardiac factors like smoking and diabetes, they found 25 percent of those who ate the least salt were 80 percent more likely to die of cardiac disease than the 25 percent who ate the most salt.
Low-salt diet may be worse for heart
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that people who eat the least salt suffer from the highest rates of death from cardiac disease.
They looked at a federal health survey of about 8,700 Americans between 1988 and 1994.
