An international policy making it possible to fight salt intake would be particularly profitable worldwide.
Such a program allowing a 10% reduction in salt consumption over ten years would save the equivalent of 6 million years of life (years of life lost due to cardiovascular disease, disability or premature death).
Lives saved for $ 1.13 per person
For this study, published in the British medical journal, the American researchers evaluated several scenarios of reduction of the salt intake(ranging from 10% to 30%) in 187 countries. The specific costs of implementing a sodium reduction policy have been studied with the World Health Organization (WHO).
And according to Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the School of Nutrition at Tufts University in Boston (United States) who led this study, this sensitization of the population could be done at a lower cost, or $ 1.13 per anybody.
99.2% of the world’s adult population has a sodium intake that exceeds the maximum threshold of 2 g / day recommended by the World Health Organization. Based on this threshold, it is estimated that 1,648,000 annual deaths from cardiovascular disease were attributable to excess dietary sodium in 2010.
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