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Read the full publication on Science Direct! The 1500 mg/d dietary sodium restriction commonly recommended for patients with heart failure has recently been questioned. Poor adherence to sodium-restricted diets makes assessing the efficacy of sodium restriction challenging. Therefore, successful behavioral interventions are needed. We reviewed sodium restriction trials and descriptive studies of sodium restriction to:…

Click here for the full paper on Science Direct! |Abstract| Introduction: Self-monitoring technologies produce patient-generated data that could be leveraged to personalize nutritional goal setting to improve population health; however, most computational approaches are limited when applied to individual-level personalization with sparse and irregular self-monitoring data. We applied informatics methods from expert suggestion systems to…

Click here to read the full paper! Knowing which barriers to buying and preparing/cooking vegetables at home are linked with the home availability of vegetables and how food-security status impacts this relationship will facilitate the tailoring of future public health interventions. Baseline data were used from an elementary-school-based intervention. Data on household food-security status, availability…