World Salt Awareness Week

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-145

  He, Feng J ^a   Jenner, Katharine H ^a   Farrand, Clare E ^a   Macgregor, Graham A ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

EDITORIAL; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AWARENESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SOCIAL MARKETING; SODIUM, DIETARY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79952186207     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2010.00417.x     Document Type: Editorial

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