Compelling Evidence for Public Health Action to Reduce Salt Intake

Abstract

Health care reform remains a point of focus on the U.S. political agenda. Actively debated are fundamental changes to the health care delivery system, which largely focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of existing disease. Prevention of disease, commonly accomplished through public health interventions, appears to be an afterthought, perhaps because the benefits are mistakenly perceived as small and the cost savings delayed.In this issue of the Journal, Bibbins-Domingo and colleagues¹ document a public health intervention designed to reduce dietary salt intake that can have huge benefits. In brief, the authors project that a national effort to reduce daily . . .