Salt intake tied to increased risk of diabetes, research says
Most of us might equate type 2 diabetes with too much sugar, but a recent Swedish study found that risk of developing diabetes correlated to salt intake in the country’s population.
Lead researcher Bahareh Rasouli, PhD, presented his findings that a diet high in sodium was linked to increased insulin resistance at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting. Development of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) was also tied to higher salt content, he and his team discovered.
“In the European population, the prevalence (of LADA) is from 5 percent to 10 percent of all diabetes patients in adulthood,” Rasouli told MedPage Today. “And some of the diabetes patients, at the beginning, they’re misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes.”
The American Heart Association recommends individuals consume no more than six grams of salt per day.
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After graduating from Indiana University-Bloomington with a bachelor’s in journalism, Anicka joined TriMed’s Chicago team in 2017 covering cardiology. Close to her heart is long-form journalism, Pilot G-2 pens, dark chocolate and her dog Harper Lee.