Study prompts calls for Europe-wide salt legislation
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
'This study provides excellent ammunition both to convince patients about the benefits of reducing their individual salt intakes and also to persuade the EU of the urgent need to introduce legislation to restrict the salt content of processed foods,' said ESC spokesman Professor Frank Ruschitzka, a cardiologist and hypertension specialist from the University of Zurich, Switzerland...