Get Up And Do Something: Cutting salt could save hundreds of thousands of lives, study says

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Cutting salt could save hundreds of thousands of lives, study says Feb 15th 2013, 11:42 Steadily reducing sodium in the foods we buy and eat could save a half-million Americans from dying premature deaths over a decade, says a new study. And a more abrupt reduction to 2,200 milligrams per day--a 40% drop from current levels--could boost the tally of lives saved over 10 years to 850,000, researchers have projected. The new estimates, published Tuesday in the American Heart Assn.'s journal Hypertension, are the results of three separate teams crunching the numbers at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers from UC San Francisco, Harvard University's School of Public Health and Simon Fraser University in Canada came at their estimates independently, but found that their results converged.

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