date:Apr 16, 2014
duals who were not on any drug treatment for blood pressure and a correction was made for all other variables that could have influenced blood pressure, apart from salt [REF 5]. There was still a fall in adult population blood pressure of 2.7mm Hg systolic/ 1.1mm Hg diastolic, (P 0.0001). This reduction in blood pressure can therefore be attributed to the fall in salt intake.
From the Office for National Statistics, which records deaths, over the same time period 2003 2011, stroke and heart di