Sodium in Food and High Blood Pressure: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, April 13 and 14, 1981

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Page 181 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 87 - Five-year findings of the Hypertension Detection and Followup Program. I. Reduction in mortality of persons with high blood pressure, including mild hypertension.
Page 149 - Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1755 S Street., NW, Washington, DC 20009, (202) 332-9110.
Page 224 - Frank, GC; Berenson, GS; Webber, LS: Dietary studies and the relationship of diet to cardiovascular disease risk factor variables in 10-year-old children. The Bogalusa Heart Study.
Page 227 - Effect of weight loss without salt restriction on the reduction of blood pressure in overweight hypertensive patients.
Page 149 - Schwelker of the Department of Health and Human Services. Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which organized the petition drive, charged that by not limiting salt, FDA has neglected its legal responsiblity to guarantee the safety of the American food supply.
Page 99 - I mean according to recommendations of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences...
Page 226 - Smith H. The effect of highsodium and low-sodium intakes on blood pressure and other related variables in human subjects with idiopathic hypertension.
Page 225 - Life Sciences Research Office, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: Evaluation of the health aspects of sodium chloride and potassium chloride as food ingredients.
Page 88 - The first priority need is to determine the effectiveness of antihypertensive therapy in reducing morbidity and mortality from hypertension in the general population. Such studies should include both sexes, all races in a community, and younger [adults] as well as middle age ranges.

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