Need for coordinated programs to improve global health by optimizing salt and iodine intake Necesidad de programas coordinados para mejorar la salud a escala mundial mediante la optimización de la ingesta de sal y yodo

• Main Authors: Norm R. C. Campbell, Omar Dary, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Kim B. Harding, Michael B. Zimmermann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2012
• Subjects: Sodio; cloruro de sodio dietético; yodo; deficiencia de yodo; nutrición en salud pública; hipertensión; hipotiroidismo; hipertiroidismo; Sodium; sodium chloride; dietary; iodine; iodine deficiency; nutrition; public health; hypertension; hypothyroidism; hyperthyroidism; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Pequeña
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/c9bd710d3fa44ccfa0abd6864342e0a4

High dietary salt is a major cause of increased blood pressure, the leading risk for death worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that salt intake be less than 5 g/day, a goal that only a small proportion of people achieve. Iodine deficiency can cause cognitive and motor impa...