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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 10, 2010

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Lombardi’s Offie Soldin Responds to Recommendations About Dietary Salt Reductions

Washington, DC -- In correspondence published in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Offie Soldin, an associate professor of oncology, medicine, physiology and biophysics at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center, responds to a call for a reduction in salt intake made in NEJM earlier this year (18 Feb). In her letter, Soldin cautions that harm could occur with decreased salt consumption especially among pregnant women and infants. Read her letter: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/23/2224