A Swiss study of 50 low birth weight babies about 5.5 pound or less have blood pressure when they ate a high salt diet it known as salt sensitivity.

Study author Dr. Giocomo D. Simonetti, “Salt sensitivity in children is low and rises with increasing age through adulthood,”
The author suggests that prevention of salty diet could improve the blood pressure of the children.

“During adolescence, about 18 percent to 20 percent of adolescents in the general population have the condition. However, salt sensitivity was present in 37 percent of all low-birth-weight (LBW) and in 47 percent of the children who were small-for-gestational-age (SGA).”

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