I also have a resting heart rate in the mid 50s and LDL of 46, but in my case it is because of beta blockers and 80 mg of statins daily.
3 years ago I found out I had 3 total occlusions and needed an immediate coronary artery bypass graft. 3 years later and my heart is still only half as efficient as a normal man my age because of extensive scarring! Take care of yourselves people, there is more to life than shipping software!
Seems like a lot of people are missing the fact that is study of people with heart failure not a study of otherwise healthy people.
The study is decreasing sodium intake even further from the current guideline for patients with heart failure.
The effect of sodium intake is very different for people who need to maintain very tight tolerances to survive. And a ton of effort is spent keeping people with heart failure out of the hospital.
I have heart failure and have an implant that measures electrical conductivity of heart tissue and will warn if I am approaching fluid overload due to too much sodium.
ICD patient and avid cell phone user here. They tell us magnets will disable the device. This is by design, they include a hall effect sensor to allow medical personnel to disable the devices. They aren't exactly specific about how big a magnet and how close it has to be.
My device sends data to a base station which reports back and is also interrogated every 6 months by a electrophysiologist and they can see if and when it has been disabled.
Mine has been disabled twice so far, once by using the Boston Scientific interrogation device to turn it off, and once by a surgeon taping a magnet to my chest!
3 years ago I found out I had 3 total occlusions and needed an immediate coronary artery bypass graft. 3 years later and my heart is still only half as efficient as a normal man my age because of extensive scarring! Take care of yourselves people, there is more to life than shipping software!