Nutrition, Vitamins & Supplements for Seniors
Older Women Reduce Stroke, Death Risks with Potassium-Rich Foods
Studied women 50 to 79 over 11 years; women who ate the most potassium were 10% less likely to die
Highlights
> The health benefits from potassium-rich foods are greater among older women who do not have high blood pressure.
> Most older American women do not eat the recommended amounts of potassium from foods.
> See list of Potassium-Rich Foods in Story
> More below about Potassium and High Blood Pressure
Sept. 8, 2014 - Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat less potassium-rich foods, according to new research in the American Heart Associations journal Stroke.
Previous studies have shown that potassium consumption may lower blood pressure. But whether potassium intake could prevent stroke or death wasnt clear, said Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., study senior author and distinguished university professor emerita, department of epidemiology and population health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
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Older Women Reduce Stroke, Death Risks with Potassium-Rich Foods