ReviewNutrients2020
Priority Actions to Advance Population Sodium Reduction.
Review in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of a Salt Substitute on the Incidence of Hypertension: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2026Pooled it
- Availability, Formulation, Labeling, and Price of Low-sodium Salt Worldwide: Environmental Scan.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Salt Substitute and Salt Supply Restriction in Eldercare Facilities: The DECIDE-Salt Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Top Food Contributors of Sodium Intake in US Children and Adults Aged 1 Year or Older, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, August 2021-August 2023.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Article
- From Progress to Plateau: 50-Year Trends in Hypertension Prevalence and Salt Intake in the Finnish Population.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2026Article
- Changes in dietary sodium knowledge, attitudes and behaviors among Canadian adults in 2011 and 2024: a repeated cross-sectional study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Assessing the implementation of national sodium reduction policies in Nigeria: an interim qualitative evaluation of stakeholder perspectives.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Global, regional and national burden of intracerebral hemorrhage attributable to dietary and metabolic risks from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis based on the Global Burden of Disease 2021 comparative risk assessment framework.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Taxing mechanisms on salty foods: investigation of effectiveness through price elasticity and cross price elasticity of demand.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Sodium content in packaged foods and beverages in Argentina in 2024 and policy implications.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Trends in Salt Consumption and Reduction Practices in Vietnam During 2015-2021: Analyzing Urinary Sodium Levels Among 18-69 Aged Populations.International journal of public health · 2025Article
- Health Claims, Product Features and Instructions for Use on the Labels of Potassium-enriched Salt Products: A Content Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2024Article
- Salt-related knowledge, attitudes and practices and their relationship with 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretions among a group of healthy residents in the UAE: a cross-sectional study.Public health nutrition · 2024Article
- Salt Reduction and Iodine Fortification Policies Are Compatible: Perspectives for Public Health Advocacy.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Association between Salt-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours and 24 h Urinary Salt Excretion in Nepal.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The availability, price, and characteristics of low sodium salt based on an online salt market survey in China: Implications for scaling up its use.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2023Article
- Dietary intakes of hypertensive patients in rural India: Secondary outcomes of a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial.Dialogues in health · 2023Article
- India's tryst with salt: Dandi march to low sodium salts.The Indian journal of medical research · 2023Review
- Evaluation of a state-wide intervention on salt intake in primary schoolchildren living in Victoria, Australia.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Sodium content targets for pre-packaged foods, China: a quantitative study and proposal.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Article
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Abstract
High sodium intake is estimated to cause approximately 3 million deaths per year worldwide. The estimated average sodium intake of 3.95 g/day far exceeds the recommended intake. Population sodium reduction should be a global priority, while simultaneously ensuring universal salt iodization. This article identifies high priority strategies that address major sources of sodium: added to packaged food, added to food consumed outside the home, and added in the home. To be included, strategies needed to be scalable and sustainable, have large benefit, and applicable to one of four measures of effectiveness: (1) Rigorously evaluated with demonstrated success in reducing sodium; (2) suggestive evidence from lower quality evaluations or modeling; (3) rigorous evaluations of similar interventions not specifically for sodium reduction; or (4) an innovative approach for sources of sodium that are not sufficiently addressed by an existing strategy. We identified seven priority interventions. Four target packaged food: front-of-pack labeling, packaged food reformulation targets, regulating food marketing to children, and taxes on high sodium foods. One targets food consumed outside the home: food procurement policies for public institutions. Two target sodium added at home: mass media campaigns and population uptake of low-sodium salt. In conclusion, governments have many tools to save lives by reducing population sodium intake.
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