Too much salt is linked to 1.65 million deaths per year

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Too much salt is linked to 1.65 million deaths per year

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/too-much-salt-linked-1-65-million-deaths-223348891.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qjqJe.BtF89R7qX93erPHg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/98e4f0cbf4cd0bb150481e6028631a26599101d0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="People around the world eat twice as much salt as they should, and this behavior translates into 1.65 million heart-related deaths per year, researchers say" align="left" title="People around the world eat twice as much salt as they should, and this behavior translates into 1.65 million heart-related deaths per year, researchers say" border="0" /></a>Excess salt can cause high blood pressure, which is leading factor in heart disease and stroke, according to the study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Led by scientists at Harvard and Tufts University, the study combined data from 205 surveys of sodium intake in 66 countries around the world. &quot;These 1.65 million deaths represent nearly one in 10 of all deaths from cardiovascular causes worldwide,&quot; said lead researcher Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The average level of global daily sodium intake in 2010 was 3.95 grams per day, nearly double the World Health Organization recommendation of two grams per day, the study found.</p><br clear="all"/>

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