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Cappuccio, Francesco (2016) Pro : Reducing salt intake at population level : is it really a public health priority? Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, 31 (9). pp. 1392-1396. ISSN 1460-2385.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfw279
Abstract
A reduction in salt intake reduces blood pressure, stroke and other cardiovascular events, including chronic kidney disease, by as much as 23% (i.e. 1.25 million deaths worldwide). It is effective in both genders, any age, ethnic group, and in high-, medium- and low-income countries. Population salt reduction programmes are both feasible and effective (preventive imperative). Salt reduction programmes are cost-saving in all settings (high-, middle- and low-income countries) (economic imperative). Public health policies are powerful, rapid, equitable and cost-saving (political imperative). The important shift in public health has not occurred without obstinate opposition from organizations concerned primarily with the profits deriving from population high salt intake and less with public health benefits. A key component of the denial strategy is misinformation (with 'pseudo' controversies). In general, poor science has been used to create uncertainty and to support inaction. This paper summarizes the evidence in favour of a global salt reduction strategy and analyses the peddling of well-worn myths behind the false controversies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Human beings -- Effect of salt on, Blood pressure, Hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, Cerebrovascular disease, Kidneys -- Diseases, Salts -- Physiological effect | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1460-2385 | ||||||
Official Date: | 3 August 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 31 | ||||||
Number: | 9 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1392-1396 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 March 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 August 2017 | ||||||
Funder: | World Health Organization (WHO), University of Warwick |
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