Awareness of Less Salt Intake – On World Hypertension Day!
This year’s prime theme on World Hypertension Day (Saturday) is that ‘Be Aware of Your Blood Pressure Levels’.
This theme is highly relevant to our country people, where about 35% of the adults have elevated blood pressure levels, said Rajan Ravichandran, the director of MIOT Institute of Nephrology, MIOT Hospitals.
It is termed as the common assassin in the world, as it acts as the chief driving force for the kidney disorders, he added.
Moreover, Hypertension acts as a mediator for bringing in many risk factors including strokes and cardiovascular diseases, said Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, interventional cardiologist of the Apollo Hospitals. And you can handle it easily by dropping down the salt intake, described Dr. Ravichandran.
Subsequent to the universal salt diminution propaganda during the period of 2003-04, there was a cut in the death pace because of strokes by 42 % and heart attacks by 40 %, amid the duration of 2003 and 2011, stated by a study from the World Action on Salt and Health, printed in the British Medical Journal.
Also, the salt reduction in England hoard above 1.5 billion pounds annually.
Several measuring steps like alertness programmes, tagging of sodium gist on processed foods, dispersing truths about children’s want for sodium and creating accessible low-sodium surrogate foods at inexpensive rates were also looked-for, said specialists.
