Why the study?
Does dietary salt reduction reduce blood pressure and cardiovascular events in the general population and hypertensive patients?
Population
General population and hypertensive patients
Comparison
Dietary salt reduction vs Usual diet or higher salt intake
Design
Editorial
Authors
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May justify salt reduction policies on surrogate data; leaves open need for hard-outcome RCTs.
Does dietary salt reduction reduce blood pressure and cardiovascular events in the general population and hypertensive patients?
The editorial argues that population-wide dietary salt reduction is a life-saving, cost-effective measure supported by extensive evidence, and implementation should not be delayed by the lack of hard-outcome RCTs.
Pasquale Strazzullo (2011) studied this question.
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