Implementing Recommendations for Dietary Salt Reduction: Where Are We. Where AreWe Going. How Do We Get There. A Summary of an NHLBI Workshop. Held in August 1994

摘要

In 1993, the National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) recommendedto develop a national campaign, the specific goal of which is the primary prevention of high blood pressure. Various sets of data clearly show that mean dietary salt/sodium intake in the population is higher than optimal and is one of the important mass exposures that accounts for the generally unfavorable blood pressure distribution. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute assembled representatives from a variety of disciplines to discuss and recommend intervention strategies and materials, monitoring methods, and research directions for dietary salt/sodium reduction. The recommendations from this assembly, or workshop, are meant to contribute to the foundation of which the NHBPEP is developing a national campaign for salt/sodium reduction as one step toward the primary prevention of hypertension. The paper summarizes the workshop presentations, the working group recommendations, and the closing panel discussion. It uniquely complies different current perspectives on implementing public health recommendations for dietary salt reduction. It takes an in-depth look at where we are; where we are going; and how do we get there.