Dietary Sodium/Potassium Intake Does Not Affect Cognitive Function or Brain Imaging Indices.

CONCLUSIONS: In community-dwelling older adults, higher sodium:potassium, but not sodium or potassium intake alone, was associated with decline in cognitive function, with no associations observed with micro- and macro-structural brain MRI indices. These findings do not support reduction dietary sodium/increased potassium intake to prevent cognitive decline with aging. PMID: 29393090 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: American Journal of Nephrology - January 24, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Nowak KL, Fried L, Jovanovich A, Ix J, Yaffe K, You Z, Chonchol M Tags: Am J Nephrol Source Type: research