In type 2 diabetic heart patients, morbidity and mortality were lowest at approximately 5 grams of sodium per day, increased significantly below 2 grams per day, and only reached parity with low salt consumption at 8-10 grams per day.

“at about 5 grams per day was the low ebb of morbidity and mortality within this population and then you had to get up to 8 to 10 grams of sodium intake per day in this sick population before you saw any type of parity with the morbidity mortality within the the low salt consumption”