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New evidence relating to the health impact of reducing salt intake [1]

This paper is a Position Statement from an ‘ad hoc’ Scientific Review Subcommittee of the PAHO/WHO Regional Expert Group on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention through Dietary Salt Reduction. It is produced in response to requests from representatives of countries of the Pan-American Region of WHO needing clarification on two recent publications casting doubts on the appropriateness of population wide policies to reduce salt intake for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
N. Campbell [2], R. Correa-Rotter [3], B. Neal & et al [4]
Nutrition [5], Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases [6]
21
9
617-619
Tags:
Salt [7], Health Effects [8], WHO [9], Heart Diseases [10], Medical Research [11]
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