Sodium Imbalance in Drinking Water

Abstract

What are the health implications-if any at all-when a source begins to present substantial concentrations of sodium? The answers are still largely hypothetical.

Elevated Blood Pressure and High Sodium Levels in the Public Drinking Water

“…I The American Heart Association has proposed that a limit of 20 mg Na per liter be adopted as a standard in order to afford protection to those with heart or kidney ailments who require a low sodium diet. 2 The chronic excessive consumption of salt has long been recognized as a risk factor in the development of hypertension in animal models (e. g., rat, chicken, rabbit, dog, and monkey).3-3 Numerous observations of humans from the early 1900s to the present in both epidemiologic and clinical studies have lent support to the hypothesis that elevated sodium exposure is a causative factor in the development ofhypertension. 9 -I5 Sodium intake is usually substantially greater from food than from water.…”