Can a low salt diet reduce heart disease?

A trial of 21,000 people in China by The George Institute of Global Health is finding out. The China Salt Substitute and Stroke Study (SSaSS) is a large scale cluster randomised trial conducted in rural area in China, aiming to evaluate the effects of replacing usual salt with a low sodium salt substitute on the incidence of stroke and mortality.

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