date:Feb 28, 2020
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Salt-reduction efforts should be reinforced in the UK and worldwide to save millions of people suffering and dying unnecessarily from strokes and heart disease each year, said Professor Feng He, lead author of the review and researcher at Queen Mary University of London.
Up to 2011, the UK salt reduction programme, under the Food Standards Agency (FSA), led the world and had already saved 18,000 strokes and heart attacks per year with 1.5 billion a year in NHS healthcare saving costs, ac