Reducing salt intake in Iran: Priorities and challenges

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-112

  Fahimi, Saman ^a,b   Pharoah, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IODINE DEFICIENCY; IRAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALT INTAKE; SODIUM EXCRETION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; IRAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84856894060     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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