Fig. 5: Convergency of Evidence (CoE) for the cumulative body of related studies assessing the effect of salt on cardiovascular diseases or mortality (Case 2), shown by publication year.

For comparison with existing systematic reviews, only data up to 2014 are shown here. Greens lines represent ‘excitatory’, yellow lines represent ‘no change’, and red lines represent ‘inhibitory’. Solid lines with circle markers represent the cumulative probability of relations, and dotted lines represent the cumulative number of studies.