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Research Question:
Eating a potassium-rich diet lowers the chances of getting a stroke?

Study Design:
This overview article contained 14 cohort studies with 333250 participants, of which 10659 people with stroke.

Results and conclusions:
The researchers found that a high potassium intake through diet, the chance of getting a stroke significantly with 20% [RR = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.72-0.90] reduced.

The researchers concluded that a high potassium intake through feeding reduced the chance of getting a stroke.

Original title:
Potassium-rich diet and risk of stroke: Updated meta-analysis by D'Elia L, Iannotta C, [...], Ippolito R.

Link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24780514

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