The authors advocate for population-level policy interventions to reduce dietary salt intake in order to improve blood pressure and cardiovascular outcomes.
High dietary salt has detrimental effects on blood pressure and cardiovascular outcomes. The question, say Francesco Cappuccio and colleagues, is not whether to reduce salt intake but how to do so. With the upcoming United Nations High Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases in mind, they make the case for population level policy interventions.
Cappuccio et al. (Thu,) studied this question.