date:Apr 16, 2014
New analysis published in BMJ Open shows that the UK salt reduction programme has led to a fall in population blood pressure and thereby stroke and heart disease events and deaths. From the fall in blood pressure that was due to the salt reduction there has been a saving of approximately 18,000 stroke and heart attack events a year, 9,000 of which would have been fatal.
Raised blood pressure throughout its range is the single biggest cause of death through the strokes and heart disease it cause