low-salt diet
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dieta baja en sal
- His healthcare provider advised him to maintain a low-salt diet in order to control his edema.
- a low-salt diet and a diuretic
Indeed, eating too low of a low salt diet can actually be harmful for your heart and your other organs.
- Indeed, eating too low of a low salt diet can actually be harmful for your heart and your other organs.
Examples
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The doctor recommended a low-salt diet to help manage my high blood pressure.
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Many patients with Meniere's disease are responsive to traditional medical management with a diuretic, a low-salt diet, and/or a vestibular suppressant.
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As for those on low salt diets, hopefully a request to the kitchen will ensure that your steak is unsalted.
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A water pill may be out of the question for a taxi driver on the road all day; a low-salt diet may be impossible for someone living in a homeless shelter.
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He was a nonsmoker, had stopped drinking alcohol upon the onset of symptoms, and had been on a low-salt diet for 3 months.
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After 3 years of conservative medical therapy (a low-salt diet and a diuretic), the patient returned with worsening vertigo and drop attacks.
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The vertigo of Meniere's disease is typically treated with a low-salt diet, diuretics, and labyrinthine suppressants.
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Risk appears to increase in patients who have impaired renal function, renal artery stenosis, or heart failure and are dehydrated or on a low-salt diet.
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All patients had been unresponsive to medical management with traditional therapies, including a potassium-sparing diuretic, a low-salt diet, and/or a vestibular suppressant.
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Following a low-salt diet can help reduce the risk of heart disease.
Synonyms
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A diet that limits how much salt you eat to help control blood pressure
How Salty
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Surface Forms
Morphology
low-salt + diet
The meaning 'a diet that restricts the amount of salt' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'low-salt' (i.e., containing little salt) with 'diet' (a planned way of eating). This adjective+noun composition is a common, compositional pattern found across languages and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Low-salt diet names a way of eating that uses very little salt: a low-salt diet means you 'eat less salt'. Doctors began using the phrase when they found salt can raise blood pressure, so today it means an eating plan to 'help control high blood pressure'.