REFORMULATING packaged foods in Australia to contain less sodium might save about 1,700 lives per year and prevent nearly 7,000 annual diagnoses of heart disease, kidney disease, and stomach cancer, according to new research published this week in Hypertension.
"We had previously modelled the potential impact of the Australian program," said the study's co-lead author Kathy Trieu, from The George Institute for Global Health, and the University of New South Wales.
"In this study, we wanted to estimate the potential number of additional premature deaths, new cases of the disease, and years lived with disability that may be averted with the WHO sodium benchmarks."
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