Replacing Sodium In Salt With Potassium Could Prevent Lakhs Of Deaths, Disease In India: Study
A new study suggests that replacing sodium chloride with potassium-enriched salt in India could significantly reduce cardiovascular and kidney disease. The intervention has the potential to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths annually.
Why it matters
Public health interventions targeting dietary habits can have massive impacts on mortality rates in large, developing populations.
Potassium-enriched salt, made by replacing some of the sodium chloride in regular table salt with potassium chloride, could avert about four lakh…
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