Salt Awareness Week

' World Salt Awareness Week ' is a global event t o bring attention to salt intake and the risks to health it can bring, including high blood pressure and increased risk of stroke and heart disease. This year, the awareness week is being observed 4-10 March, 2019.Cochrane Nutrition Field' saim is to support and enable evidence-informed decision-making for nutrition policy and practice by advancing the preparation and use of high-quality, globally relevant nutrition-related Cochrane reviews. Cochrane Nutrition covers a wide spectrum of nutrition-related issues and questions, ranging from clinical to public health nutrition.To mark World Salt Awareness Week, we have collated a selection of Cochrane Reviews on salt intake:Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular diseaseAltered dietary salt for preventing pre ‐eclampsia, and its complicationsAltered dietary salt intake for people with chronic kidney diseaseAltered dietary salt intake for preventing and treating diabetic kidney diseaseEffects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet on blood pressure, renin, aldosterone, catecholamines, cholesterol, and triglycerideIodised salt for preventing iodine deficiency disordersReduced dietary salt for the prevention of cardiovascular diseaseReduced salt intake compared to normal dietary salt, or high intake, in pregnancy   Wednesday, March 6, 2019
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