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Only ~50% of the population is hypertensive, and only about half of them are sodium sensitive.

A hypertensive parent with an adopted child nudges the child’s later-life risk by about 20–30% higher than baseline.

One might want to argue that people who are hypertensive consume more salt as an effect, not a cause.

The group's average blood pressure fell from a level of 140/83 - almost hypertensive - to 122/76.

Studies in Scandinavia show that children adopted into hypertensive households carry an elevated risk compared to the general population.

You also misunderstand how studies works (All clinically treated hypertensive patients were excluded for a reason.

For the sake of analogy, if a patient were to be diagnosed with hypertension and an anti-hypertensive medication regiment is started.

For context, a normal reading is under 120/80, while anything over 180/120 is considered a hypertensive crisis, which is a medical emergency.

If people develop a taste for it as kids, they have trouble dialing it back later when they do have hypertensive issues.

So sure, salt reduction seems to offer 5-6mmHg reduction, exercise 4-8, hypertensive drugs 10.

Many experts are arguing that just like blood pressure (which was recently revised down again, to <120/<80 as normal, 120/80+ pre-hypertensive, etc.

Unless you are hypertensive, there is no evidence you need to do this.

Does the headline square with "patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension"?

Or to pick an example with with similar moral connotations: "It's my opinion that black people have higher blood pressure than Asian people on average, but I will treat every patient fairly." Would this (accurate) opinion prevent a doctor from providing appropriate care to hypertensive Asian patients?

"Related" includes those deaths in which someone who had a legal prescription for a drug used something with it that was fatal - a simple example would be alcohol combined with many of the opiate painkillers, but it would also include somebody on the antidepressant drug selegeline who ate a tyramine-rich food like bleu cheese or sausage and died of hypertensive crisis.