All these improvements in health outcomes were highly significant.
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Dietary sodium and cardiovascular and renal disease risk factors: dark horse or phantom entry?
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Follow-up communiqués (personal communication) with one of the authors did confirm that subjects with a prior CVD history had a significant 27% greater risk of CVD mortality and a borderline significant 17% increase in all-cause mortality on lower sodium intakes.
This is simply untrue—TOHP I and II did not study a normal population; improvements in CVD outcomes, while possibly significant, did not translate into a significant reduction in mortality.