Effective population-wide public health interventions to promote sodium reduction
Canadian Medical Association JournalPublished 14 September 2009Open access
Sailesh Mohan, Norm R.C. Campbell, Kate Willis
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High dietary sodium has been associated with an increase in blood pressure, hypertension, direct vascular and cardiac damage, and high dietary sodium is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
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Elevated blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which accounts for about 7.6 million deaths, or 13.5% of deaths, annually worldwide. [1][1] High dietary sodium has been associated with an increase in blood pressure, hypertension, direct vascular and cardiac damage,
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