Consuming a little less salt could mean fewer deaths
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 16:36
in Health & Medicine
For every gram of salt that Americans reduce in their diets daily, a quarter of a million fewer new heart disease cases and over 200,000 fewer deaths would occur over a decade, researchers said at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
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