Eating salt in excess to cause 2.3 million deaths from heart attack, stroke and other diseases related to the heart, throughout the year 2010. Excess salt it occupies 15 percent of all deaths caused by a number of diseases, they said in American Heart Association scientific meeting on Friday.
The researchers examined 247 survey of adult salt intake of any age, gender and region between 1990 and 2010, which is part of an international study involving 303 institutions from 50 countries.
Next the researchers determine how the effect of sodium intake on the risk of heart disease, to test the meta-analysis of 107 random people, to look for effects of sodium on blood pressure effect on heart disease. Heart disease in question are all associated with blood vessels including stroke.
According to estimates by researchers, excessive sodium consumption affects 2.3 million heart disease-related deaths worldwide in 2010. Nearly one million deaths - 40 percent of all deaths from heart disease - occur in people aged around 69 or younger.
As many as 60 percent of deaths befall male patients and 40 percent of women. A heart attack causes 42 percent of deaths, stroke causing 41 percent, the rest is caused by other heart problems. 84 percent of the deaths due to excessive sodium consumption occurs in countries with low or middle-income than high-income countries.
"Measures such as the national health programs to reduce salt consumption, is expected to save millions of lives," says Dariush Mozaffarian, lead researcher of Public Health Harvard University.
The American Heart Association recommends that salt intake is limited to no more than 1,500 mg / day.
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