Major Finding: Reducing salt by 3 g daily may reduce the annual new cases of coronary heart disease in the United States by 60,000 to 120,000, annual new cases of stroke by 32,000 to 60,000, and annual new cases of myocardial infarction by 54,000 to 99,000.
Data Source: The Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.
Disclosures: The study was supported in part by a grant from the American Heart Association Western States Affiliate and an intramural pilot grant from the University of California, San Francisco Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Study investigators reported no financial disclosures. The editorialists report their financial disclosures at www.nejm.org.
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